The period of good fortune is over: Europe prepares for an era of constant fear of an energy crisis

December 31 2024 116 026 12

The European continent is set for a colder-than-normal January, possibly with weak winds, which will boost demand for natural gas. It is a very untimely surprise from nature, just as the EU faces the end of a gas transit agreement via a pipeline between Ukraine and Russia this week, Bloomberg reports.

Despite the bluster and bold rhetoric based on the early successes in diversification and renewable energy, the Old World is in fact entering a twilight zone of constant fear and anxiety about energy security. Honeymoon of prosperity with Russian gas for economics The EU is finished, probably forever. Now there are only justified, fair concerns in an era of instability and high resource prices.

In addition, Europe's traditional luck of recent years has ended, when, against the backdrop of a fuel shortage, the continent enjoyed mild winters and high air temperatures even in the coldest months. This allowed it to survive the heating season with minimal losses and even boldly fight "dependence on Moscow." However, reality set in too quickly, just two years after the start of the anti-Russian sanctions rally.

Now, all the most negative factors have converged at one point, which is why the 2024-2025 season will be the first truly stressful and difficult one for EU citizens and industry, a real test of survival and resilience.

A combination of cold weather and weak winds has already forced Europe to use more of its gas reserves than is typical for this time of year, with levels reaching below 75% in mid-winter. With supplies from Russia now guaranteed to be cut off, Europe is starting a tough life on its own in the energy sector, which will cause problems elsewhere.

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Afinogen

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31 December 2024 10: 42

Europe's mind has somehow become stuck, the well-fed, rich life has become boring. After all, it is not external forces that are to blame for everything, but internal ones (within Europe)
Hence the moral (very appropriate at the moment):

If you love honey, you must love the cold too!
1. soloist2424
  
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  31 December 2024 16: 42
  
  People didn't like the policemen during the war either, but they couldn't throw them out. It's the same in Europe - it's their own people who are pushing, but America is behind them. So what to do?
Anatoly-68

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31 December 2024 15: 20

More bad news for Europe: January will be cold on the US East Coast, which is why the price of gas in the US rose yesterday by almost 16% (it was growing by 25% at the moment), so there will still be a fight for American gas
Valera 22

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31 December 2024 16: 18

And who receives gas through the Turkish Stream?
1. Dima
  
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  31 December 2024 21: 54
  
  Turks and the Balkans.
strange guest

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31 December 2024 21: 12

Well then. It's time for old lady Europe to get out of its comfort zone and start working for real. In all areas. Both scientific and technological. In fact, cheap Russian energy resources were the "Dutch disease" for the European economy. Science stagnated - there have been virtually no scientific award winners since the 1980s. There have been no inventions in technology since about the same period. Why invent something if there is a well-fed life on cheap resources? Now we'll have to hustle. And maybe the Renaissance of Europe will begin.
1. Vasya_33
  
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  31 December 2024 22: 35
  
  from this one?
  https://dzen.ru/b/YiMiU07bT3GsIrUd (не удалось только фото отправить)
  
  On Olga's TV show Europe froze in the winter of 2022-23.
  1. strange guest
    
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    31 December 2024 22: 47
    
    I do not believe that Russia is an absolutely exceptional country and that Russians are an exceptional people - that only they are capable of overcoming difficulties and flourishing again after decline. I am not a Nazi. Other nations are also capable of successfully overcoming difficulties.
Shkilet

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31 December 2024 22: 41

I don't think there will be a catastrophe there. The problem is that the so-called elite will crawl on all fours again as soon as they are beckoned with a finger. For them, war and the death of our people is something like a football match.
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Valera75

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1 January 2025 06: 49

Quote: Strange guest
I do not believe that Russia is an absolutely exceptional country and Russians are an exceptional people - that only they are capable of overcoming difficulties and flourishing again after decline. I am not a Nazi. Other nations are also capable of successfully overcoming difficulties.

Absolutely right. We laugh at the crests, but many of us are sitting and waiting for Europe to freeze, and they have been waiting for the third winter already, and for Trump to come. We need to pay attention to ourselves, in our year of the family 2024 there will be 10 divorces for every 8 marriages, the birth and death rates will soon surpass the terrible nineties. Theft of hundreds of billions is already perceived as millions before. Now, to surprise me, you have to hear on TV that someone stole trillions. Inflation is going up, gasoline has gone up in price for the third time in 10 days, in a month I think AI-95 will cost 60 rubles. The dollar is growing and has exceeded 114 rubles, but Elya has been reassuring everyone for years, saying don't worry, have fun and drink. The president on TV keeps saying about moving forward and only forward, but they are preparing for negotiations and the strange law on riots is being tightened. Although it would be better to filter out the migrants who arrived or tighten the total ban on entry. There are more and more things to do inside the country, as well as problems, and there will not be fewer of them, and I think there will be even more. So what's the point in laughing at Europe in such a situation and rejoicing that it may, and it is not a fact, freeze? Europe will find oil and gas, and will buy from us too, but will only overpay for it and nothing more. So we are in an even worse position than they are, after all, no one has ever let us go from the war and most likely they will not. They will shake us from within. From the outside, everyone and their dog is already kicking the good stuff. And there was a case when they laughed at the Americans as they fled Afghanistan, but what about us?
KLNM

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1 January 2025 18: 05

The press writes that the decision of the Kyiv regime to stop the transit of Russian gas through its territory was a shock and a stab in the back for the countries of the European Union.
Didn't the European Union dream of stopping the transit of Russian gas, so that Russia could limit its income, so as not to become dependent on Russia for gas supplies, so as to diversify its supplies... Ursula von der Leyen screamed about it day and night. And now the dream has come true...