EU Mulls Using Ukraine Gas Storage to End Slovakia Spat Over Lost Transit Fees

The European Commission is considering a plan under which Ukraine would boost natural gas imports from Greece and Turkey, store the gas, and send it in the winter via Slovakia to other EU countries, POLITICO reports, as the EU is seeking to resolve a Slovakia-Ukraine dispute over gas transit and lost fees. Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico has defied the EU and met with Putin in Moscow at the end of December to discuss Russian gas supply to Slovakia ahead of the halt to deliveries via Ukraine. On December 31, the supply deal…