Estonia and Lithuania shooting their pipelines. Hungary and Croatia together with the Baltic for a new dependence on the line against the Kremlin.
secure energy. And even more confident. And 'this is the spirit with which Estonia, Lithuania, Hungary and Croatia have joined. A new face of the brave, composed of three EU countries, and one not yet, that after the victory of Yanukovych in Ukraine and Poland's transition to the side of the pro-Russian Komorowski, launched a kind of energy alliance with the express purpose of allla oppose reliance on Moscow, and its consequent political blackmail, which, by now, the entire Old Western Europe prey.
As reported by the Russian newspaper "Kommersant'', the Ministry of Economy Estonia would be preparing a decree to break up the national energy company Eesti Gaas, monopoly in the country not only in the import, from Moscow, blue gold, but also its distribution. The Estonian government's decision would be dictated by vcolontà pipelines to bring in state hands, removing it from the control of the Russians. A need to ensure a minimum degree of independence from the Kremlin. Eesti gas, in fact, 37% belongs to the Russian monopoly Gazprom, which de facto controls. The other shareholders in the company are, for 33.66%, Germany's E. ON Ruhrgas AG, allied with Gazprom, the company Fortum 17.72% and 9.85% for the Latvian Itera Latvija. According
as determined by the third EU energy package, launched in 2009, the Government of Estonia would have the right to acquire ownership of its pipeline through three modes: nationalization, creation of a new operator a majority government, launch an action aimed extraordinary economic purchase 50% plus one of the actions of the giant state. Which of the three-way travel is not yet clear, but the government of Estonia is determined to finalize the action. And not just him.
According to the Kommersant'', Lithuania also intends to use the third energy package EU, and would be considering a similar decree to separate the national airline Lietuvos dujos, owner of gas pipelines, controllata per il 38,9% da E.ON Ruhrgas International, per il 37,1% da Gazprom, e solo per il 17,7% dal governo nazionale.
L'esigenza dell'azione dei due Paesi baltici, tuttavia, non è dettata solamente da sacrosante ragioni politiche, ma anche economiche: Estonia e Lituania, paesi invisi al Cremlino, pagano il gas a prezzi decisamente più cari rispetto alla media europea, pari a 265-270 dollari per mille metri cubi per trimestre. Tallin è costretta a pagarne 318,2, Vilna 370.
Altro Paese legato mani e piedi al Cremlino è l'Ungheria, che importa il 90% dell'oro blu per mezzo del celebre gasdotto "Druzhba", che collega Mosca all'UE via terra, attraverso l'Ucraina. Una situazione high-risk business, financial and political to which the new Conservative government wanted to address energy infrastructure system linking Budapest to the "North-South Corridor" means a pipeline designed to supply Norwegian gas to the Baltic States, and all other European countries strongly dipendneti by Gazprom. In this pro, the Hungarian government has planned for next year, the laying of 206 km pipeline that linked the North-South, will meet the 14 billion cubic meter annually in Hungary needs.
But not all. Was added to the pipeline Croatia, which is ready now for the next entry in the EU, launched an action plan for the construction of a system pipeline in partnership with his Budapest. A pipeline connecting Zagreb 120 km to the south of Hungary, and will enable the Balkan state SUPPLY gas from the Norwegian Sea. Cost of the work, HUF 80 billion, amounting to 360 million U.S. dollars. A considerable amount
. But the need for energy independence, and political, from Moscow.
Matthew Cazzulani
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