“With its completely excessive climate goals, the EU is pushing the prosperity and competitiveness of Europe. The latest proof of this: Qatar announced that it does not immediately defuse its LNG deliveries if Brussels did not immediately defuse the controversial supply chain law. Energy Minister Saad al-Kaabi criticized in a letter to the Belgian government and the EU Commission, in particular, criticized the obligation to climb with the 1.5-degree destination of the EU, ”said the Freedom Deputy Energy Spokesman NABG today. Paul Hammerl.
“The EU climate goals are not only unrealistic, but a massive competitive disadvantage for Austria’s economy and industry. European companies are already paying many times higher energy prices than their competitors in the United States or Asia. If gas deliveries from Qatar are also eliminated and the EU wants to continue to prohibit gas imports from Russia, we are threatened with a massive energy bottleneck and thus an explosion of energy prices. Companies hard, but also mean an unreasonable burden for Austrian households. Axel Kassegger.
“In the past few months, the EU countries have been importing an average of around 450 GWh a day from Qatar. This is about ten percent of the total EU LNG imports. In the current trade dispute with the USA, the EU has been ripped off again and agreed to obtain even larger amounts of expensive LNG gas from the USA. This means an fire-threatening dependency on a single supplier that can dictate the prices, like He wants to, ”emphasized Hammerl and Kassegger.
“US President Trump requires the EU to increase energy imports from the United States to up to 750 billion USD within three years. According to Eurostat, the total value of EU energy imports in 2024 was around 376 billion euros in 2024, of which only around 75 billion euros were made to deliveries from the United States Covering from the United States (around 100 billion euros per year), at least 150 billion per year from oil imports.
“In addition, the European Commission presented its” Roadmap to exit the energy imports from Russia “on May 6, 2025. The aim of this timetable is to complete all energy imports from the Russian Federation, especially gas, oil and nuclear fuel, at the latest. Member countries can no longer cover their gas requirements in the future, even if the LNG quantities from Qatar are still eliminated.
“Therefore, there must be an immediate rethinking of the unrealistic climate goals of the EU, no ideological politics may take place at the expense of the prosperity of the population and to ensure an affordable and stable energy supply for Austria must be ensured by the black and red government,” required Kassegger and Hammerl.