As Iran war rages, Europe gears up for energy crisis
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“The European Commission is calling on its 400-million plus citizens to fly and drive less, work from home and do their bit to conserve energy”
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“German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned earlier this week that the economic impact could be 'as heavy as we recently experienced during the COVID pandemic or at the start of the Ukraine war'”
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“The EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen said Tuesday, after a meeting of the EU's 27 energy ministers in Brussels where they discussed the bloc's energy security”
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“Oil and gas prices have soared by as much as 70% since the US and Israel first hit Iran with airstrikes in late February”
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“According to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, just the first 10 days of the conflict cost European taxpayers an additional €3 billion ($3.4 billion) in fossil fuel imports”
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“According to a recent report by the Bruegel think tank, 'a doubling of gas prices would add about €100 billion to European gas import costs over the next 12 months'”
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“The EU has diversified its energy supply in recent years in a bid to reduce reliance on Russian energy, replacing it with more imports from the US and Norway”
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“The EU gas supply is further constrained by the scheduled phaseout by 2027 of Russian LNG”
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“Lobby group Fertilizers Europe said in mid-March the war could have 'implications for [...] fertilizer supply chains'”
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No evidence found after searching for FSB's alleged cyber operations against Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
“Even if the war ends tomorrow, supplies of LNG from the region won't restart overnight. The Ras Laffan energy complex in Qatar was hit by Iranian missiles on March 18”
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“Energy infrastructure in the region has been and continuously is being ruined by the war”
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