{"id":487633,"date":"2022-04-28T12:45:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T07:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=487633"},"modified":"2022-04-28T12:45:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T07:15:10","slug":"european-union-accuses-russia-of-blackmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/european-union-accuses-russia-of-blackmail\/","title":{"rendered":"European Union accuses Russia of blackmail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU\u2019s chief executive on Wednesday branded as \u201cblackmail\u201d Gazprom&#8217;s move to halt supplies to some European customers, but said the bloc was working on a coordinated response to Moscow\u2019s escalation.<\/p>\n<p> Gazprom said it had cut supplies to Poland and Bulgaria for failing to pay for gas in roubles, Moscow\u2019s toughest response yet to sanctions imposed by the West over the conflict in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe announcement by Gazprom that it is unilaterally stopping delivery of gas to customers in Europe is yet another attempt by Russia to use gas as an instrument of blackmail,\u201d European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU\u2019s chief executive on Wednesday branded as \u201cblackmail\u201d Gazprom&#8217;s move to halt supplies to some European customers, but said the bloc was working on a coordinated response to Moscow\u2019s escalation. Gazprom said it had cut supplies to Poland and Bulgaria for failing to pay for gas in roubles, Moscow\u2019s toughest response yet to sanctions imposed by the West over the conflict in Ukraine. \u201cThe announcement by Gazprom that it is unilaterally stopping delivery of gas to customers in Europe is yet another attempt by Russia to use gas as an instrument of blackmail,\u201d European Commission president Ursula von der [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}