Washington's sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline makes the Trans-Saharan gas pipeline crucial for Europe which now faces uncertainty. EU concern over Niger's leadership now becomes evident. (pbs.twimg.com)

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Thing is that LNG is significantly more expensive and trades on spot markets making prices unpredictable. It's also not possible to ship LNG in same volumes as pipeline gas. Gas in Europe hasn't been so much replaced by LNG as the supply having been reduced leading to the recession and deindustrialization we're now seeing. It's no longer cost effective to do manufacturing in places like Germany, and industry is now shutting down.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The EU economy prognosis for 2023 is still positive. As far as I am aware only some countries are in a recession, not the EU in total.

And that "industry is shutting down" is also exaggerated.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think this recession will be for Europe only. The US will canibalize part of EU's industry while the rest moves to Asia. Living standards will never recover. Maybe this even becomes a depression. As you can see Germany's PMI is fast approaching major recession levels.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, the US seems to be better off.

But there still does not seem to be data that the EU will be in a recession very soon, it Still at +0,?%

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