The Austrian Foreign Minister, former Federal Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg, said that the rejection of Russian gas is not discussed in the European Union. DEA News”.
“The key word is gas. There was a tough discussion before that we should stop buying gas (from Russia) and we, like some other EU countries, have said it openly – this is not discussed, because it will affect us greatly. Here we have to be realistic, even if it is emotionally unpleasant,” Schallenberg says.
The Minister, who is present at the EU Council of Foreign Ministers in Brussels, added that Austria had talked from the very beginning about the need to impose sanctions against Russia that would not hit Europeans.
But we also knew it would be painful, we talked about it from the very beginning. I think it’s been successful so far,” says Schallenberg.
Previously in Luxembourg open Details of the EU’s new sanctions against Russia.