Bulgaria will be able to refuse imports of Russian oil only after two years. Currently, the country does not have alternative sources of energy supplies in the required volumes.. This was announced by the local Prime Minister Kirill Petkov.
According to BNR, the politician spoke about this after a meeting with Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte.. Petkov believes that Bulgaria should become an exception to the European oil embargo against the Russian Federation, since it is 95% dependent on purchases from Russia. He hopes that the country will be able to change the situation only when the construction of a new terminal in Greece is completed..
“We are talking about the possibility of acquiring shares in Greek ports. I think that very quickly, together with Greece, we must invest in the north-south direction in order to create the infrastructure that will give us such an opportunity. We believe that two years, subject to intensive work, will be enough to get rid of the Russian dependence that we have now,” Petkov said..
It is also interesting that Germany is ready to support the initiative to exclude the embargo for Bulgaria, which, from the very beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russians in Ukraine, has been trying to protect its own energy interests.. Petkov announced this, saying that he enlisted the support of German Prime Minister Olaf Scholz and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier..
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