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"Blood money is sent to Russia [from Austria] every day with the gas bill:" EU ambassador summoned for criticising Austria’s Russian gas dependence (www.euractiv.com)
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"Oh my God, 55% of Austria’s gas continues to come from Russia,” Martin Selmayr lamented in Vienna. Paying for continued Russian supplies was tantamount to helping finance its war against Ukraine, and no one protested, he added.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

My opinion of your country has become pretty negative because of how it has responded to Russia's barbaric land grab. You can put whatever lipstick you want on it, but it's shameful for you to stand with people committing genocide just to make some money.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

The bad apples are quite visible sadly. Tons of Austrian companies have pulled out of Russia, tons of Austrians companies have been producing in Ukraine for years and obviously support Ukraine. But a few big conglomerates like Raiffeisen keep giving us a bad name because they dont want to lose money.

The gas thing is yet another blunder by the OMV (our gas+oil company) and the conservative party who signed a contract with Russia. We absolutely should be buying our gas elsewhere, but that's not realistic as long as we have no suppliers. The government dont want Austrians to freeze in the winter. Other EU countries have done exactly zero to help us out in that regard btw. Moldova is switching from Russian gas to Romanian gas currently because Romania heavily helps them.

And the government is incompetent as fuck and still partly influenced by friends of Russia.