The French government has asserted that it aims to have its natural gas reserves at full capacity by autumn as European countries brace for supply cuts from major supplier Russia with the Ukraine war drags on.
‘We are ensuring the complete filling of our storage capacities, aiming to be close to 100 percent by early autumn,’ Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne claimed.
She added that France will also build a new floating terminal to receive more gas supplies by ship.
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‘We can do without Russian gas,’ French Energy Transition Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher said later in an interview with BFM Business TV which was monitored by Africa Daily News, New York.
That depends on the floating terminals beginning operating as planned and France filling its strategic reserve, she added.
Meanwhile, Olaf Scholz who is the German Chancellor has finally revealed that some of the sanctions against Russia by some other Western Countries also had an effect on Germany and were hurting his country and some other allied nations.
Olaf had, however, maintained that Europe and its allies would have to pay the price since freedom, democracy, solidarity with friends and partners have their prices in places of history.
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He promised that Germany will continue to support Ukraine during a speech at the Annual meeting of the Federation of German Industries on Tuesday, as reported by CNN.
‘Unprecedentedly tough sanctions” were imposed on Russia. “These sanctions do work. Yes, these sanctions are hurting ourselves as well. They hurt our companies, but they are right,” Scholz said.
‘Freedom has its price. Democracy has its price. Solidarity with friends and partners has its price. And we are prepared to pay this price,’ Scholz said.
Scholz said his trip to Irpin near Kyiv last Thursday made clear to him that Ukraine belonged to the European family.
Germany has revealed that they’re ready to deploy more troops to Lithuania, Chancellor Olaf Scholz confirmed during a visit Tuesday in response to repeated requests from the Baltics ahead of a NATO summit.
