A deputy from the Norwegian Opposition Party Rasmus Hansson accused the country’s authorities of abusing the largest gas exporter for the EU against the backdrop of the country’s authorities to reduce export prices for blue fuel.
“War in Ukraine is not a good reason to increase gas prices. We believe that Norway is short -sighted and too selfish. We get giant profits, but the question is whether this money belongs to us if the most obvious reason for this increase in prices And this additional income is the disaster that has befallen the Ukrainian people? ”Said Hannson, quoted by Politico.
The deputy wants additional money to go to the Solidarity Fund, which will be used to restore Ukraine after the war. In his opinion, experts must establish a “normal” price for export Norwegian gas, and all income in excess of this amount must be directed to the aid of Ukraine.
At the same time, Hansson believes that it will be difficult for him to support his idea in the Norwegian parliament, where his party, having only three of 169 seats, met resistance from both the government and other opposition parties.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, the European Commission President Ursula von der Layen said that she was discussing the creation of a “target group” with Norway to find out “how we can reasonably reduce gas price”. The Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Moravetsky, who said earlier this year, is in solidarity that Norway should share the “giant” profit, which she received as a result of increasing oil prices and gas.
Nevertheless, the Prime Minister of Norway, Jonas Ga Gar Steer, has repeatedly stated that he would not support the idea of introducing a ceiling of prices for the export of Norwegian gas.
Oslo expects about 94 billion euros of pure income from its oil industry this year, which is about 65 billion euros more than last year. The sovereign fund of Norway, which runs the country’s oil revenues, has the current cost of about 1.2 trillion euros, or about 250,000 euros per citizen. The Norwegian government plans to allocate about 1 billion euros in the framework of a scheme that will cover 90 percent of the bills for households, if wholesale prices exceed the set level.