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Qpmu Brinkmanship between Russia and Ukraine over gas supplies is back. Russia threatened to cut the supply to its western neighbour on Friday February 27 in a dispute over who should pay for the gas supplied to several rebel-held areas in the east of the country. In the end, Ukraine made a small prepayment on March gas supplies ahead of a meeting between Russian and Ukrainian energy ministers in Brussels on Monday March 1 adidas sambarose . The balance of opinion is that a settlement will be agreed. But with the Ukrainian pipeline responsible for transporting 40% to 50% of Russian gas to Europe, it is a reminder of the problem of Europes energy dependency. And the reality is that it is not going to change significantly in the short to medium term. The current situationThe conventional way of assessing the ability air max 1 of a country to cope with energy price shocks or supply interruptions would be to look at its ene adidas samba rgy dependence. Yet the EU is a slightly different case because it is a bloc of 28 member states who depend on Russian gas supplies to varying extents. The EU is the worlds largest energy importer: 53% of all EU energy comes from imports, of which 39% is Russia gas supplies. Apart from the Ukraine pipeline, there are two other lines: one through Belarus and Poland and another that runs under the Baltic Sea from Russia to northern Germany.This import dependence costs the EU 鈧?00bn 拢290bn a year overall 鈥?a staggering amount, particularly on the back of a financial crisis. This affects the EUs Vecw Five migrants have died while attempting to get to the UK from stanley termoska a beach near Boulogne.Around 70 people, including children, were rescued after their boat got into trouble.The first migrants to get to the UK in a small boat were repo stanley deutschland rted yesterday stanley cup nz , after 27 days of no crossings.Share on FacebookShareShare on TwitterTweetShare on WhatsAppSendShare on WhatsAppSendShare on WhatsAppEmailLoad more share options |
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