Austrian Chancellor says EU embargo on Russian gas ‘impossible’ – China.org.cn

An exceptional European Union (EU) Council meeting on energy is held in Brussels, Belgium, July 26, 2022. [Photo/Xinhua] Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said on Thursday that an embargo on Russian gas in the European Union (EU) is “impossible” due to EU countries’ heavy dependence on Russian energy. Nehammer’s comments came after a meeting with visiting Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Vienna. According to Austrian news agency APA, Nehammer said at a press conference that Germany and Austria’s dependence on Russian gas makes an EU embargo “impossible,” as the decline of the German economy would also impact Austria and lead…