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Some elements in the commission are more relaxed than member states over gas dependency (Photo: Notat)

Commission relaxed as Ukraine-Russia gas deal faces new threat

The European Commission is playing down the risk of further gas supply problems to the EU, despite a new twist in the row over prices in Ukraine and an ongoing cold snap in Russia.

"The commission expects that Russia will fulifll its commitments as a gas supplier and that Ukraine will stick to its commitments as a transit country," energy spokesman Ferran Tarradellas Espuny indicated on Friday (20 January).

His remark followed a Ukraine parliamentary resolution tabled on Wednesd...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

Some elements in the commission are more relaxed than member states over gas dependency (Photo: Notat)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

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