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The European Union and Moldova on Tuesday agreed on an energy security plan aimed at weaning the country off its dependence on Russian supplies and integrating it into the 27-nation bloc’s network.

The EU’s executive branch, the European Commission, said that Moldova would receive 250 million euros ($258 million) this year — 40% of it by mid-April — after Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom cut supplies on Jan. 1.

Daily electrical outages were imposed after hundreds of thousands of people in Moldova’s separatist pro-Russian Transnistria region were left without heating and hot water last month over an alleged $709 million bill for past supplies to Moldova.

The decision by Gazprom, which came into effect a day after a gas transit agreement between Russia and Ukraine expired, halted gas supplies to Transnistria’s gas-operated Kuciurgan power plant, the country’s largest, which provided a significant portion of Moldova’s electricity.

The commission said that its financial package will provide support to consumers in Moldova – a candidate country for EU membership – to help pay their rising electricity bills. Some 60 million euros ($62 million) is earmarked for 350,000 people left in the cold in Transnistria.

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[–] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How exactly does an electric bill subsidy wean off a country of Russian Energy?

I would have expected honestly something better, like investments in new energy infrastructure

[–] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What it really is for is that people won't vote vor a putler candidate out of annoyance that their bills are rising.

Seems to be a common theme, in the USA as well as Germany, people go "man groceries and petrol are expensive, I guess sieg heil it is then". The logic escapes me though.

[–] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

It's still a Band-Aid instead of a long term solution.

I'm not saying you shouldn't do the band-aid, but you should start working and funding the long term solution now

[–] Melchior@feddit.org 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

That is working on a long term solution for another problem, namely Transnistria. They currently have no heating and daily blackouts with huge parts of the industry being shut down. As soon as Moldova does a lot better, that is a massive step towards Transnistria giving up its claimed independence.

[–] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 20 hours ago

But Transnistria has a Russian Puppet Government. I doubt they give up their "independence" voluntarily

[–] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 2 points 21 hours ago