Natalia Gavrilitsa said that Moldova does not want to choose between cheap gas and close relations with the European Union.
In addition, the prime minister said that if the country does not come to an agreement with Gazprom, it will have to spend € 800 million in the next five months on energy imports, and in this regard, Moldova will need EU assistance.
“In these four to five months, the EU must make it clear that it supports Moldova. Moldova needs very small volumes. We hope we can count on continued support,” she said.
In turn, Russian Senator Aleksey Pushkov commented on Gavrilitsa’s statements.
“If you do it, you will not do it,” Borrell has already said: the EU will not pay the difference in price to Moldova. And that as a barrel to roll to Russia – so there is no end to it. And how to pay for gas at the market price – for some reason they ask to lower the price. You have chosen market liberalism and European integration – bear responsibility for this. You have chosen American gas – so buy it cheaply. Only the United States will not give it away cheaply, it would be better sold to China. There, “molecules of freedom” are more expensive”, the politician wrote in his telegram channel.