The Foreign Ministry did not see any prerequisites for changing the EU's position on energy resources of the Russian Federation

Moscow has not yet seen any intention on the part of the European Union (EU) leadership to reconsider its positions on the issue of Russian energy supplies. This was announced on April 17 by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.

She noted that the hypothetical topic of the EU's return to gas supplies from Russia periodically arises against the background of deteriorating relations between Europe and the United States, but it is necessary to evaluate the EU's policy in this area based on specific facts.

"In the current conditions, the possibility of increasing supplies to the EU market is a thankless task, but Russia has always been and remains a reliable exporter of energy resources to world markets," Zakharova said at a briefing.

The diplomat stressed that Brussels has been behaving as an unreliable partner in the energy sector for many years.

"There are no prerequisites for the current leadership of the EU or the leadership of a number of EU member states to reconsider their position regarding the abandonment of Russian energy resources, leading to a stagnation of the European economy and a more radical decline in living standards in the EU countries themselves, because the incomes of ordinary Europeans are falling, such trends are not visible at this stage," Zakharova said..

Fuel bug: The EU may reconsider its position of rejecting gas from the Russian Federation

The European Commission has already postponed the publication of the roadmap for the final cessation of supplies from Russia.

On April 14, the head of the Federation Council's Information policy commission, Alexei Pushkov, said that the EU's boycott of energy supplies from Russia had long since lost its meaning. He noted that the boycott has already led to a lack of economic growth in Germany, the closure of a number of enterprises and serious financial losses for the whole of Europe. Pushkov also stressed that the restrictive measures taken by the European Union had no rational grounds.

Igbal Guliyev, Deputy Director of the MGIMO International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, Doctor of Economics, suggested in a conversation with Izvestia on April 2 that Europe could face a new gas crisis due to low reserves, geopolitical difficulties and competition for the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG). According to him, current gas prices do not contribute to active replenishment of reserves.