We need to get out of gas anyway due to the global warming.
We also can't keep being vulnerable to Russian black mail.
We need to increase investment in renewable power and build more nuclear power plants.
We also can't keep being vulnerable to Russian black mail.
We need to increase investment in renewable power and build more nuclear power plants.
How do you do that with 40% less gas in 1 year? You can't, because you will have rioting in the street, you will have people literally freezing to death, and no green politician will ever get elected again.
Oh, and btw, what's the answer now to this gas shortage? Burning more coal and firewood. So your proposed vision is doubly going in the wrong direction.
This isn't like switching from windows to linux. It takes years, and people actually die in the meantime if you get it wrong.
EU leaders have to start behaving like we are in an economical war, because we are.