EU tells citizens to lower heating
The bloc’s High Representative for Foreign Policy Josep Borrell has asked citizens to turn down the heating in their homes, as one way for the bloc to cut its dependence on Russian gas.
“The challenges we face are going to require a very tough stance and we have to be willing to pay the price,” Borrell said, suggesting, “European citizens lower the heating of their homes,” as part of their “individual effort to cut gas consumption.”
The EU currently imports 45% of its coal, 40% of its gas, and 27% of its oil from Russia, with Borrell stating the bloc is taking steps to cut the “umbilical cord that unites our economy and the Russian one” to cut off the “flow that allows [Russia] to accumulate reserves with which to finance” the conflict in Ukraine.
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