Bulgaria May Be Forced Back into Russian Gas Talks

摘要

Bulgaria may be forced to renegotiate its natural gas deal with Gazprom amid tight supplies, four months after Moscow cut Uows following its demands that payments be made in rubles. Bulgaria's interim Energy Minister Rossen Hristov was quoted this week as saying such talks were “inevitable. "?His comments follow the dismissal in late June of former Prime Minister Kiril Petkov's pro-European government, a possible casualty of the EU’s energy- price crisis. They also follow delays in the startup of the 3 Bcm/yr Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria pipe to Oct. 1.