Mitrakhovych said that developments alone will not be enough to provide jobs for the EU.
Stanislav Mitrakhovich, a leading expert of the National Energy Security Foundation and the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, said in an interview with the media that the only way Europe can get rid of gas dependence on Russia is the collapse of its own industry.
Earlier, the US administration announced a deal with the EU for the supply of at least 15 billion cubic meters of natural gas this year, but the main goal was to get rid of dependence on Russia and its fuel.
In an interview with Izvestia, the expert explained that with such meager supplies to Europe, it would be difficult to refuse supplies from Russia.
And in order to outbid liquefied natural gas, it is necessary to compete with Asian countries with prices.
“The main recipe here, if they want to do this, is to collapse their industry,” Mitrakhovich concluded.
According to him, without spending on energy resources for industrial enterprises, this is possible. But it is unclear what Europe is going to earn. Scientific and technical developments alone will not be enough for her, the expert is sure, because there are not so many jobs in the industry.
As Topnews wrote earlier, on March 23, the President of the Russian Federation announced that the country was switching to paying for gas supplies to unfriendly countries in rubles.
Later, the European Commission said that it would not allow European countries to accept Russian conditions.