"Despite the decline in gas prices, the cost of energy remains high for most businesses in Germany. At the same time, we have not yet got rid of problems with the reliability of energy supply, "RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
According to Adrian, this applies not only to the winter period of 2023-2024, but also in the long term as a whole.
He added that the economy is counting on the work of existing nuclear power plants until the end of the crisis.
At the same time, earlier the head of the Federal Network Agency of Germany, Klaus Muller, expressed the opinion that Germany's gas storage facilities could be filled by next winter without Russian gas supplies.
As noted by the European Commissioner for The Economy Paolo Gentiloni, Germany is among the EU countries most severely affected by the crisis.
The head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, claims that Europe has completely lost its energy security, having lost access to cheap energy resources from Russia.