BRUSSELS—A dozen European Union countries have now been affected by cuts to gas supply from Russia, EU climate policy chief Frans Timmermans said on Thursday, as the bloc faces a deepening energy standoff with Moscow.
Russia slashed flows through its Nord Stream 1 pipeline to 40 percent of capacity last week citing problems with equipment, having already cut gas to Poland, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Finland over their refusal to comply with a new payment scheme.
Timmermans said 10 of the EU’s 27 member countries have issued an “early warning” on gas supply— the first and least severe of three crisis levels identified in EU energy security regulations….