Italy working for firm EU response to Russia's rouble gas payment order

MILAN – The Italian authorities is involved with its European companions to present a agency response to Russia after a decree launched by Moscow requiring European importers to pay roubles for Russian fuel.

“The prime minister will converse to German Chancellor [Olaf]Scholz this night and bilateral talks are below manner between vitality ministers,” Italy’s Ecology Transition Minister Roberto Cingolani stated in an announcement on Thursday.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Thursday requiring international consumers to pay roubles for Russian fuel from April 1 or see their contracts halted, a transfer described as “blackmail” by European states.

Cingolani stated Italy’s present fuel reserve ranges would enable financial exercise within the nation to proceed “even within the case of sudden and unlikely disruptions to Russian provides.”

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