Bulgaria and about 14 other countries are united around the position that there should be a dynamic ceiling on the price of gas and that a price level in the range of 150-160 euros should be achieved, but we do not have a consensus with the other countries.

This was said by the Acting Minister of Energy, Rosen Hristov

Rosen Hristov has a master's degree in international economic relations from the University of California after an extraordinary meeting of energy ministers in Brussels.

At the head of the other group, he said, are the Netherlands and Germany, which believe that there should be no limits or, if there are, they should be high enough that they are not activated in practice.

"These are countries that either benefit from gas trade and the correspondingly high prices, or are in dire need of gas," he explained.

According to him, with Bulgaria's position, we are fighting for the stabilization of the natural gas market.

Hristov was adamant that Europe should not pay more than all other consumers in the world. 

Rosen Hristov with a comment on gas supplies and repairs to the Kozloduy NPP

Within today's extraordinary meeting of the EU Council "Transport, Telecommunications and Energy", part "Energy", again no agreement was reached regarding the change in the gas market correction mechanism.

"The European Commission and the Presidency are working hard in the direction of finding a compromise," the energy minister also emphasized.

The government seeks to diversify the country's natural gas supplies. 

Hristov stated that steps have already been taken in this direction with the visit of President Rumen Radev to Turkey.

"On the Turkish side, they are ready to discuss long-term cooperation for natural gas supplies, including preserving the capacity of their terminal," summarized the energy minister. 

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