Europe suspects that in the beginning of the year it expects a new gas crisis .

In early 2010 while the European Union may be a new gas crisis similar to what happened a year ago. In any case, this possibility does not exclude the European Commissioner for energy Andris Piebalgs, "Right now, more or less clear that during the 2009 crisis will not, but for 2010 we know that there are risks," - he said at a news conference in Brussels on Monday on the basis of the next meeting of energy ministers of 27 countries of the EU. This Piebalgs noted the efforts of Russia and Ukrainian sides to prevent the emergence of a new crisis with the supply gas to Europe. Minister of the Presidency of the EU energy Maud Olofsson of Sweden, for his part, said that the EU countries are now better prepared in the event of a crisis than a year ago. "We are now better organized both within the EU and toward Russia and Ukraine, which provided us safer," - she said. In January of this year due to a commercial dispute between Russia and Ukrainian sides gas from Russia could not be delivered to consumers in the EU within two weeks. Moreover, the parties blamed each other, and what happened to the pipe in fact, impossible to say so far. We only know that because of the lack of contract "Gazprom cut off supplies to Ukraine on Jan. 1. And from January 7 completely stopped gas transit to Europe through Ukrainian territory. Transit was renewed on January 20 after agreeing on the level of Prime Ministers of Russia and Ukraine and signing of the ten-year contract between Gazprom and Naftogaz. Ukrainian authorities, for its part, officially assured the EU that will not allow destabilization in the system of European countries with natural gas and fulfill commitments on transit of Russia "blue fuel".