Islamabad (February 26, 2023) The European Union's statistical agency Eurostat said in Brussels that the sanctions were imposed by the European Union against Moscow after the Russian military attack on Ukraine in late February last year. According to the targets set for the bloc to reduce its dependence on natural gas imported from Russia, the bloc had to reduce its gas consumption by 15 percent.
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This saving in energy consumption in the form of natural gas was to be made from August 2022 to March 2023. The benchmark for this was based on the average volume of gas consumed in that block during the same period of eight months during the last five years.
Now Eurostat has reported that EU member states managed to save up to 19.3% of their natural gas consumption between August last year and January this year, which is about a quarter of the target set by Brussels. It becomes more.
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According to the Statistical Office of the Union, 22 of the 27 member countries of the bloc were able to reduce their gas demand during this period, which was more than 15% individually.
According to Eurostat, Finland (minus 57.3 percent), Lithuania (minus 47.9 percent), and Sweden (minus 40.2 percent) saved the most. Countries that reduced gas use but failed to meet the 15 percent savings target were Slovenia (minus 14.2 percent), Spain (minus 13.7 percent), and Ireland (minus 0.3 percent).
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During the same period, there were only two countries that are members of the Union and have very small populations, where the demand for gas increased rather than decreased, but nevertheless, the overall target of the Union was not affected, but the final savings target was much higher. stayed
These two member states were Slovakia (4.6% increase) and Malta (11.9% increase).