Go to the media bankWhite House building in Washington DC, USA. Archival photoPARIS, Oct 11 The United States is using the war in Ukraine to increase its economic dominance in Europe, including through the supply of expensive LNG, and France is gradually beginning to understand this, said in an interview with RIA News Member of the European Parliament from France Thierry Mariani. The day before, speaking in the French National Assembly, the head of the French Ministry of Economy, Bruno Le Maire, said that the conflict in Ukraine should not lead to the weakening of Europe and the dominance of the United States, which sells its LNG to Europe «at a price of 4 times its cost to US consumers».
The Germans urged Biden to think again after learning about his promise to Zelensky «The French Economy Minister finally realized that the United States is using the war in Ukraine to strengthen its economic dominance in Europe,» Mariani said. The MEP recalled that before the start of a special military operation in Ukraine, Russia provided a quarter of the energy consumption of the EU countries and supplied 45% of the gas used in Europe. «As soon as the EU announced its intention to reduce Russian supplies, (US President — ed.) Joe Biden grabbed the opportunity to supply American LNG to European markets. made in March 2022 together with the European Commission, which, obviously, monitored these agreements very poorly,» the politician said. with Europe, the media write «The French already better understand the cost of the war in Ukraine: to finance at a loss the state, destroyed even before February 2022, in while all global businesses are taking their places in the markets and European businesses are weakened by Brussels' counterproductive sanctions,» he added. Liquefied natural gas supplies from the US to the EU in 2022 have doubled compared to last year. For example, in September, European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson announced that the EU countries from January to August of this year received more than 40 billion cubic meters of LNG from the United States against 22 billion cubic meters for the whole of 2021.
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