“There is an intention, by artificially reducing transit volumes, to increase the price of Russian gas in order to make American liquefied gas (LNG) more competitive,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
The deputy noted that “instead of justice and equality in the liberal market, the decision of the EU court unequivocally leads to market distortion and higher cost of energy for European partners.”
Earlier, the EU court annulled the decision of the European Commission, according to which Gazprom had the right to use all the capacities of the OPAL pipeline.
The director general of the National Energy Security Fund, Konstantin Simonov, in an interview with Nation News commented on the cancellation by the EU court of the decision of the European Commission on changing the regime of use of the OPAL gas pipeline.