#欧洲可以摆脱俄罗斯能源吗? #
Since the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the European Union has imposed five consecutive rounds of economic and financial sanctions on Russia, and has also exerted great pressure on Russia in terms of humanities, energy cooperation, sports, cultural exchanges and diplomacy, almost resembling a national blockade. According to the Global Times, recently, European countries once again decided to impose the "6th round of sanctions" plan on Russia, and they are preparing to impose "the most severe economic sanctions" on Russia, that is, to stop importing Russian energy products, which the Western media believes is a powerful anti-Russian means comparable to war, enough to cut off Russia's economic lifeline and make it impossible to continue military operations in Ukraine.
It is reported that according to the sanctions document drafted by European countries, European countries will collectively boycott the import of Russian energy products, including oil and gas products exported by Russia to EU countries, including the imposition of punitive tariffs on Russian energy products, the prohibition of European countries from investing in Russian energy development and the exploitation of oil and gas resources, and the prohibition of European countries from providing technical and material guarantees to Russian energy companies.
The European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, which drafted the document, believes that if EU countries are not able to unite and impose severe energy sanctions on Russia, then Russia will "break up" EU member states through "energy weapons". "EU Foreign Minister" Borrell told the media that the top priority of EU countries at present is that those European powers must have a unified position, otherwise the EU will have been seen through by Russia.
It has been noted that although "EU Foreign Minister" Borrelli has repeatedly stressed the need for Europe to unite against Russia, the attitude of the major EU powers, such as Germany, France and Italy, is very ambiguous, refusing to completely cut off energy trade with Russia, and unwilling to act as "cannon fodder" for the anti-Russian front, which is compared with the attitude of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland to resolutely resist Russian energy imports, the energy demand of these major countries is huge, and the current European countries are gradually warming the weather. The demand for natural gas for home heating is decreasing, but the energy imports needed by the industrial powers are increasing.
The major EU economies have all "frantically purchased" spring energy products in the past two months, in order to resist possible political risks, multinational companies and industrial groups in the eu's major powers are hoarding energy products, and the source country of their imports is russia, and their imports have even increased by nearly 80% in the recent month, which makes the EU powers, which are heavily dependent on Russia's energy, "dilemma". At present, the EU has "quarreled" over the total ban on Russian energy imports, and EU member states have different attitudes on the issue of collective boycott.
The outside world believes that "it is difficult for the EU to have a unified position on the energy ban", on the one hand, as in the above situation, if the EU countries insist on implementing the energy ban on Russia, the EU economy will suffer a major blow. On the other hand, the EU countries represented by Hungary, Greece, Austria and France hope that the EU will not "lift a stone and drop it on its own feet" on the energy issue, in addition, in the face of strict environmental protection requirements, if the import of Russian natural gas is stopped, European countries will have to reuse coal to generate electricity, and the environmental problems generated by it have just begun.
Analysts pointed out that in the end, EU countries will likely adopt a compromise solution, that is, a phased "embargo on Russian oil", while countries are free to decide their positions on the import of Russian gas.