EU energy ministers hold extraordinary meeting on gas savings plan
By DW
30 July 2022 |
5:30 am
Energy ministers from the EU are to discuss a plan to cut gas use across the bloc amid fears Russia could stop supplies. But some say the current watered-down proposal will not be enough to prepare for winter.
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