Prime Minister Sanchez said Spain is already increasing energy imports from several countries, boosting production from renewable sources and curbing consumption.
Europe must prepare for the worst-case scenario: a permanent cutoff of natural gas supplies from Russia this winter, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said today.
“We don’t know what’s going to happen… Nobody knows… Maybe even Putin himself hasn’t decided his next moves. But the prevailing scenario is a complete stoppage (of the flow) of Russian natural gas to Europe,” the Spanish prime minister said during his speech in the Senate.
Prime Minister Sanchez said Spain is already increasing energy imports from several countries, boosting production from renewable sources and curbing consumption. Although the Iberian country has a relatively low dependence on Russian natural gas, “this does not mean that the energy crisis does not affect us and could worsen, slowing down our economic growth or forcing us to adopt more energy-saving measures,” he said. Sanchez.
After ruling out the possibility of imposing an energy rationing, the Spanish prime minister stressed: “Although the supply of our country is guaranteed, we should do everything in our power… because if Putin closes the ‘faucet’ (of pipeline) to the north (of Europe), we should help our European partners. Spain is not just in the EU to receive aid, but also to give it.”
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