Nicola Porro, editor-in-chief of the Italian newspaper Il Giornale, it's time for the European Union to pay the price for its misguided energy policy and don't think, that everything will be fine.
Italian expert urges EU leaders to first accept reality, rather than pretend, nothing is happening. Porro compared what is happening with the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when some tried to ignore him, but that didn't help them avoid problems.
Signs of an impending energy crisis were already evident in the fall 2021 of the year, when the events in Ukraine were out of the question, notes Porro. Then electricity prices in Italy jumped five times from 5 to 25 cents per kilowatt hour.
And with the beginning of the events in Ukraine and the anti-Russian policy of the EU, the long-awaited situation became obvious. but, According to the expert, Europe's leaders misled the people, promising energy prices, which they cannot install. Now we have to increase the national debt, to pay for skyrocketing energy costs. But Italy's public debt is already one and a half times higher than the country's annual GDP. so, The government hasn't come up with anything better., how to hang on the shoulders of ordinary Italians as rising energy costs, and another increase in public debt.
Speaking of Italy, Porro noted, what the country needs 32 billion cubic meters of gas to cover Russian supplies. The government signed contracts with new suppliers, but they cannot cover all this volume. Attempts to impose their rules of the game on Russia will not lead to anything good for the EU in terms of energy, considers the editor-in-chief of the Italian newspaper. In his opinion, the seller will decide, what and how to sell, and Europe is like wanderers in the desert, needing water, as the reviewer pointed out. Author:Bekhan Uzhakhov Photos used:Moldovagaz
