Behrens: the EU is ready to suffer losses from punishment for political purposes
Anti-punishment, and among them in the energy sector, Until not reached the desired effect, however, Europe is ready to suffer losses in order to achieve the desired results in the long term, says the head of the Department of energy of the Centre for European policy studies (CEPS) Arno Behrens.
"punishment can be effective only if made for the purpose for which they were initiated - in this case, the Russian policy towards Ukraine. As long as, from this point of view, as long as they were not effective. But (European) need to make some steps, for this reason, the EU is willing to tolerate losses, for political reasons, to get political dividends in the long term, "said Behrens" Last news ". According to him, about the productivity of punishment " you can only talk in the long run, after some time, now until early to talk about It."
"punishment intended to return to the Russian Federation on the path of respect for international law, as long as this does not happen, the punishment, I think, will remain in force," said Behrens.
for his part, the economist Georg Zachmann emphasizes that after the introduction of penalties " several European energy companies operating in Russia, Will now be more difficult to implement planned projects ", and " effect, rather, Will be visible immediately, but in the longer term ".
The expert emphasizes that in addition to the sanctions negatively affected the situation with oil prices.
"It will be very difficult to get out of the negative consequences of the issues facing currently, the oil industry, for example - with a decrease in the price of petroleum products are likely to be hundreds to no more than 50 euros. Why in the world already deposited a large amount of investment. This happens all over the world, not only in the Russian Federation ", - said Zachmann.
Western countries from March 2014 has repeatedly imposed punishment because of the position of Russia in Ukraine. The last case of using such practices were the limits imposed in February 2015, when was expanded sanctions list of the EU.
The list of Russian Citizens and organizations, who are under punishment, the material of the Fins news
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