European Commissioner for Energy Guenther Oettinger said the EU would be will to help Urkaine .

　　The European Union is willing to help. The European Commissioner for Energy, Gunther Oettinger, said last week that the EU would pay Ukraines gas debt. He also said there were no immediate concerns about gas supplies in Europe.

　　He said the EUs members states are in a good position at the moment. European gas supplies in storage are higher than last year.

　　European officials remember that in and , Russia cut off gas supplies to Ukraine over price disputes. Europe also experienced shortages. Cold winters and low supplies meant that prices rose sharply.

　　Partly because of these problems, European buyers are now less dependent on gas sent through Ukraine. The North Stream pipeline opened in . It carries gas under the Baltic Sea to Germany. Europes biggest economy is also Russias biggest gas customer.

　　Simon Pirani says European countries took steps to build more pipelines after the first Russia-Ukraine dispute.

　　Theres also been quite a lot of work done in central and eastern Europe as a result of the dispute when people realized that Russia-Ukraine disputes could have implications further down the pipeline.

　　That includes the South Stream project. Russian President Vladimir Putin attended a ceremony as the first parts of the pipeline were connected in . The pipeline will stretch along the bottom of the Black Sea directly to southeastern Europe. It is expected to start operating in 2015. It could provide much of Europes gas needs.

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