Statements: The Russian gas embargo will destroy the European economy

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday that the European Union's ban on Russian gas imports would destroy a European economy already suffering from high inflation due to rising energy prices.

He added in statements to public radio that without controlling the prices of fuel, some basic foods and energy, inflation in Hungary, which rose to 10.7% in May, will reach between 15 and 16 percent, according to "Sky News Arabia".

The weekly newspaper "Welt am Sonntag", citing representatives of the gas industry, reported that Russian sanctions against "Gazprom Germania" and its subsidiaries, could cost German taxpayers and gas users an additional 5 billion euros annually to pay for alternative gas.

Russia decided in May to stop supplying Gazprom Germania, which was a German subsidiary of Gazprom, after Berlin placed the company under trusteeship due to the Russian attack on Ukraine.

The chapters of the crises left by the Russian-Ukrainian war and the subsequent imposition of Western and Atlantic sanctions on Russia continue, as the repercussions of this war and sanctions almost hit various sectors and economic, security, political and even environmental aspects around the world, which is the most serious and largest international crisis since World War II.

And before Orban’s statements, Poland recorded a crisis of serious environmental pollution in the Baltic Sea, after the Polish Ministry of the Interior banned at the end of last April the work of 35 companies that Warsaw believes are linked to Russian money, among them companies working in the field of cleaning and transporting sewage, whose services are used by hundreds. from Polish institutions.

Energy and food prices have risen since the beginning of the year with the beginning of the crisis in Ukraine, which is expected to rise more and more, after the European Union leaders agreed to impose a partial ban on Russian oil imports to their countries in the context of the sixth package of sanctions against Russia, which will subsequently lead to raising the already high inflation rates. in the countries of the European Union.

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