European Commission: EU disconnection from Russian gas will lead to a recession

“A serious scenario for interrupting Russian gas supplies can no longer be ruled out.

This will lead to a recession in the European Union, a slowdown in all economic activity," TASS quoted him as saying.

In the forecast of the European Commission, all macroeconomic indicators of the European Union worsened compared to the spring, the agency clarifies: expectations for economic growth for 2023 in the euro area are reduced from 2.3% to 1.4%, and for inflation in 2022 - worsened from 6.1 % to 7.6%.

The forecast does not consider the situation of the EU disconnection from Russian gas.

European Commission Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said that EU countries continue to prepare for the risk of a complete halt in gas supplies from Russia.