events of the night of July 29 — EADaily, July 29, 2022 — Politics News, Russia News
High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Control Josep Borrell believes that the EU will stop buying Russian gas in the future. He confirmed the corresponding opinion on Thursday, July 28, in an interview with Television Espanola. “We decided that we would get rid of too much dependence of the population on Russia. We cannot go from 40% to 0% overnight. And Russia knows that we will stop buying gas from it,” he said. “We have already begun to save Russian gas,” said the head of EU diplomacy. He noted that when the special operation of the Russian Federation began, “import of Russian gas is 40% of the total European, now it is approaching 20%.” “We are almost all [санкции против РФ]that might be approved. With gas, the situation is reversed now, not only that we do not want to buy it, but [РФ] He may not want to sell it to us,” said the head of European diplomacy.
Gas supplies are resumed at any time if the Bulgarian side is responsible for it on the recommendation adopted for Gazprom. This was stated on July 28 by the Russian Ambassador to Bulgaria Eleonora Mitrofanova on the air of the TV channel “Russia-24”. “Many experts, of course, call for pragmatism and to return to the agreement with Gazprom, which is valid until the end of this year. Therefore, at any moment when the Bulgarian side decides according to the scheme demanded by Gazprom, supplies will be resumed,” the ambassador said. At the same time, the diplomat noted that the situation in the energy sector in Bulgaria is very interesting; over the past two months, an increase in gas prices has been recorded. “They (Bulgaria) do not collect a large amount of gas every year, even though they are within the framework of the Agreement with Azerbaijan. This is a situation that has changed very hard in business and in the usual economy,” Mitrofanova added.
President of Serbia Alexander Vucic announced that for the next eight months Serbia will be in an undeclared situation, the situation in the country is the most difficult in 10 years. The Serbian leader stated this on Thursday in an interview on the Pink TV channel. “Until the end of March in our country, although we are not formally introducing it, we are limiting the situation. These months will be consumed over the last 10 years,” Vučić said eight. The President noted that due to the heat, electricity generation in the field of hydro resources prevailed. The price of energy and Belgrade is increasingly difficult to adjust, which saves Russian gas covers only 62% of privacy.
The British authorities overpaid 5,000 percent to import electricity from Estonia. This was reported on July 28 by The Spectator magazine. According to him, to measuring the supply voltage in London in those days when the country was faced with abnormal heat. The exact figures do not change, but on July 19 in the UK there was a broken temperature record for the entire time of meteorological observations. The thermometer rose to 40.3 degrees Celsius. As the article says, the situation was aggravated by calm weather, which significantly increased the amount of energy generated by wind turbines. The amount of electricity consumed was purchased in Estonia and what the total amount of accumulation is not specified. At the same time, The Spectator writes that if the UK had not thrown out the emission, then there would have been even more significant consequences from the explosion in electricity prices, which could have been even higher. The article also says that the kingdom would have to take on obligations to voluntarily limit the use of gas in the EU.
French police are monitoring the implementation of restrictions on the provision of water introduced during the drought in more than 90 departments of the country, the BFM television channel said in a statement. According to the head of one representative of the French Bureau of Biodiversity Jean Noel Riffel, in case of occurrence in patients, a repetition of the occurrence occurs, however, in case of violation of the rules for compiling the protocol. To a large extent, the French authorities have introduced restrictions on the use of water in 88 of the 96 departments of the continental part of the country due to the established heat and drought. On Thursday, the application was sent to 93 of the 96 departments of metropolitan France. In accordance with the established restrictions, the most common in the regions are bans on watering the garden. In France, as in a collection of other European countries, abnormally hot weather has recently set in. In Paris last Tuesday the air temperature reached 41 degrees.
Germany is moving closer to the European Union, a journalist writes in an article for Bloomberg Maria Tadeo. The author believes that such a crisis in terms of fundamental firmness is a consequence of the sanctions campaign against Russia. “For more than ten years, Berlin has wielded supreme moral and financial power and authority in applying, identifying its interrogator and acting as a heavy policeman to bring to a higher appreciation the economies of the southern European states. The energy crisis has changed the situation,” the publication says. Germany, Tadeo believes, today can act as leaders of the southern countries. According to the journalist, the main disadvantage of the German economic model was its dependence on Russia. “While Berlin is recovering from the shock, more activity and assertiveness is gathering in Southern Europe. This is not a place behind a German-imposed austerity regime, but a regrouping of forces that can eventually improve the device,” Tadeo sums up.
A group of congressmen from an electoral party introduces a new assembly to the US House of Representatives, which proposes declaring the population of Russia a sponsor of terrorism. This was reported on July 28 by the newspaper Politico. Publication on the initiative, adopted earlier by the US Senate, with an appeal to the State Department of the Congress of the Russian Federation in the list of sponsors of terrorism. The resolution of the upper house is not binding and has only an appeal by senators to the US Secretary of State. Anthony Blinken. The bill, which will be submitted to the House, assumes that the lower Congress will take over the functions included in this list. “Adoption begins with the date of adoption of the law The Russian Federation must be qualified as a government country that recognizes that it recognizes fast-acting acts of international terrorism,” the text of the document says. If the president is accepted by both chambers, he will go to the signature of the United States. Joe Biden.
US senators have submitted a proposal for $850 billion in defense spending, reports The Hill. The US Senate Appropriations Committee proposes $850 billion in national defense spending for fiscal year 2023 as part of nearly $1.7 trillion in spending presented Thursday. It is noted that most of the funds can be taken through the adoption of the decision to authorize defense spending, which provides for the allocation of 792.1 billion US dollars for the needs of the US Department of Defense. “This is $63.6 billion more than it was in fiscal year 2022,” save the publication. In addition, about $16.6 billion could be allocated additionally to military construction projects, with an appropriation decision of $317 billion being made.