This should have been thought about before the EU backed the USA’s fascists in Kiev “American gas won’t save us”

W/S Press conference opens
M/S José Manuel Barroso (left) and Herman van Rompuy (right)

SOT José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission (English): “Today, we have not focused, to be very transparent, on discussion specifically on LNG [Liquid Natural Gas]. This I believe is a given. But there also we have to be realistic, not create the illusion that it is the gas coming from the United States that is going to solve our problems.”

C/U Audience
SOT Herman van Rompuy, President of the European Council (English): “I think we have to acknowledge, and everybody has to acknowledge, that Ukraine showed a lot of restraint since the beginning of the Ukrainian crisis. Remember Crimea, where they were really showing restraint in engaging militarily in the operations, and of course now the last weeks. They are trying to restore order, and that is their constitutional right and we acknowledged this constitutional right also in the communiqué of the G7.”

M/S Barroso and van Rumpoy leaving
W/S Press conference closes

SCRIPT

EU leaders explained on Thursday that they had extensively discussed the issue of energy security in Europe as part of the latest G7 meeting.

European Commission president José Manuel Barroso said he had met with president Obama earlier this week and that the US was ready to increase the supply of natural gas to the world market. Nevertheless, he said that gas coming from the United States would not solve all problems

European Council president Herman van Rompuy also rebutted comments from Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Mevedev that an earlier G7 statement was ‘infinitely cynical’. The statement had described the Ukrainian army offensive in Eastern Ukraine as ‘restrained’, and van Rompuy repeated that description in the press conference.