Austria is working on various options for possible interruption of gas supplies from Russia. This was expressed by the country’s Federal Chancellor, Karl Nehammer, upon his arrival in Moldova at the European Political Community summit, transmits TASS.
“We are constantly preparing for a possible emergency with gas imports from the Russian Federation, so our gas storage facilities are already 75 percent full. We are also in talks with many alternative suppliers.”
According to him, these negotiations are needed to ensure that the necessary gas reserves are supplied to the country in case Russia decides to stop the supply of fuel from the territory of Ukraine. That’s why the Austrian energy company OMV is monitoring the development of the situation.
May 10 Nehammer declarationThat the Austrian authorities intend to increase taxes on the surplus profits of local energy companies, which will not lower fuel prices amid the intensifying risk of an energy crisis. The relevant law will be adopted in June this year.
Before that, the former head of the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Karin Kneissl, said that it was impossible to completely stop trade with the Russian Federation, that the sanctions measures imposed by the West on Moscow did not work.
Source: Gazeta
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