WASHINGTON, Apr 14 Accelerated economic growth in China could negatively affect gas prices for European consumers, said the director of the European Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). ) Alfred Kammer.
«There is obviously a risk this year that if China's recovery is stronger than we expect, it will put pressure on prices,» he told a question at the IMF and World Bank spring conference in Washington.
Kammer stressed that natural gas purchases to Europe last winter were secured, among other things, by reducing supplies to China due to the zero COVID policy.
«Certain risks to energy security next winter still remain, mostly in the matter of prices,» he said, assessing the situation in Europe this winter.