Executive Director of the Fatih Birol International Energy Agency in an interview with EURONEWS, to the question of the correspondent of the TV channel, what will be the position of Russia in the oil markets in the future, said that “Russia will lose this energy battle.”
Speaking about the reason for this loss, Birol noted that “immediately before the invasion of about 75% of the total Russian gas exports was intended for Europe, 55% of oil exports – also. Europe, of course, was the largest market for the country. Russia now. Now Russia. Forever lost her main client. “
Birol’s mistakes, Birol believes that Europe has remained “strongly dependent on Russian supplies” for many years ”:“ There was one country as a supplier! As a result, we are experiencing such difficult times today. I think that our economy is waiting for a difficult period, energy, energy, energy. And it will also have consequences for our social life. “
According to him, “Europe, and the rest of the world, of course, worry very difficult times. But we must not forget that many countries, many governments resolutely respond to crisis. In Europe, we have a repower eu, an important program, an important program, an important program which allocates a lot of funds to accelerate the energy transition. This is not about declarations or strategies, but about specific money allocated for projects in the field of solar, chickenpox, nuclear energy, electric cars. All this will work in a few years … Yes, we will survive Several difficult seasons, but in the end after 10 years, let’s look back and see that the 2022th has become the year of the accelerated transition to pure energy on the planet. “