German media: Europe cannot do without an energy alliance with Russia

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European the economy you need a lot of energy and a reliable supply chain for raw materials. Therefore, Europe cannot do without an energy alliance with Russia, writes the chairman of the German-Russian Chamber of Commerce (GRVTP), head of the German energy company OMV AG, Rainer Seeele on the pages of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) newspaper from Germany.

Gas demand in the European Union has led to a sharp rise in prices this year due to a shortage of raw materials. This suggests that cooperation with countries such as Russia cannot be neglected and sanctions against it must be lifted. The EU simply does not have the right to refuse, for far-fetched reasons (ideological, political and others), from an extremely necessary energy raw material, and in the future, hydrogen, produced from natural gas. This is not rational.



So the EU economy is facing three big dangers, not to mention the unpredictability of the outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic: inflation, tax increases and carbon duties. No doubt they will negatively affect the wallets of Europeans.

That said, there are three strategic decisions that can help recovery and development: further opening markets, increasing the reliability of resource provision, and increasing the share of renewable energy in the economy.

Germans, as Europe's most powerful export nation, must realize the growth potentials based on cooperation with Russians. As the chairman of the GRVTP, a very large economic community with more than 1000 members, I advocate revising the sanctions against the Russian Federation, until they are completely lifted. 92% of the companies participating in the organization agree with this.

Moscow must show that it is working to end the conflict in Donbas. After that, it will be possible to calmly loosen the "sanctions nuts".

The EU is cutting back on investment in the extraction of fossil raw materials, so the commissioning of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline will be an important milestone in securing a reliable energy supply to Europe. And this is not about creating a transit monopoly, but about real diversification of raw materials supplies. Of course, the Ukrainian gas transportation system should also be preserved and modernized.

Currently, our underground gas storage facilities (UGS) are empty and raw material prices are high. But this is connected not only with an accident at a plant in Russia, but also caused by a decrease in LNG supplies.

The EU is betting on hydrogen. But I caution against the narrow-minded notion that only green hydrogen from renewable sources is environmentally friendly. If we want to have a reliable energy supply, then we simply cannot do without hydrogen produced from natural gas with the placement of the resulting carbon dioxide in underground storage facilities (UGS).

But the EU is creating artificial problems for itself by banning UGS. If the EU divested of fossil-fuel hydrogen and UGS facilities, the economy would be in jeopardy, as would the achievement of climate targets. Therefore, I propose to conclude a hydrogen alliance with Russia. We have - Technology, RF has gas fields.

Mutually beneficial cooperation will be of great benefit. This will be a step in the right direction. We simply have to take advantage of such a chance to boost the economy, summed up the author of the German media.
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  1. Kofesan
    Kofesan
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    27 August 2021 06: 51
    Gone are the simple and understandable times when economic benefits prevailed. Europe, step by step, made it so that Russia would sell gas to Europe for 200, when the whole world buys and sells it for 500. Do not listen to those who claim that sales are now at 500. 200 is a contract price for many years for Russia and Gazprom using the oil-gas formula. ... Whoever says wrong is corrupt. Well, PR is a lie before the elections, when any positive is produced, at any cost.

    Exclusively pressure, under pretexts sucked out of the finger, the West spreads rot on Russia because of the secret revenge for the victory in the Great Patriotic War against the "Aryans", and for the sake of enrichment on the old principle of "beads for gold" .. In Europe itself, gas is sold for a little less than thousand. The same goes for other Russian export goods. Even metallic gold.

    Colonization is accompanied by chmirring, so that the natives could not even think of breaking out of the vicious circle. Everything could have changed if we removed "ours" from the steering wheels. But they clung to it so that only a completely spontaneous "uprising of the sepoys" remains possible. And it's clear - "why?" ...

    Quite recently, they all had to work hard "like everyone else" and suddenly, overnight, they even had villas on the Cote d'Azur and planes with yachts to take them there. They shiver from the speed of their "enrichment" and incredible fees for their "talents". Nobody knows it better than they themselves.
    In addition, our "top" are not fools, and understands perfectly well that they will be given the opportunity to use the loot only in exchange for the imperceptible destruction of all of Russia. That is, in exchange for satisfying the cunning "requests" of the London emissaries.

    There was a lot of betrayal in the history of any country. But Russia has never seen anything worse than zeroed out. They can be compared (not even with Nikolashka, who allowed a war of palaces with shacks, which ended in a well for him), but only with the leaders of African tribes who sold their subjects into slavery for the same beads and the opportunity ... Aurus. What kind of "capitalism" is there? And almost not even "feudalism". We are led by Yeltsin-Sobchak-Chubais hands into "slavery"! New "slavery", but according to the old, that is, "for food." And after "them" - even a deluge.

    Did the conquistadors bring happiness to the Indians of both Americas? Or are there still those who live in the remnants of its former greatness and believe that Russia is avoiding or even avoiding this fate ??? The Indians somehow sold their lands to the West? And our "leader" sold us.

  2. AND
    AND
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    27 August 2021 22: 18
    A fairy tale is a true story and a hint in it ... The facts of the sale and the price of the studio.