The argument is that Russia needs European markets as much as the European Union needs Russian gas.

现在的观点是俄罗斯迫切需要欧洲市场，而欧盟迫切需要俄罗斯的天然气。

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Russia is the world's biggest natural gas producer and the European Union depends on Russian gas pumped via Ukraine for around a fifth of its total gas consumption.

俄国是全球最大的天然气生产者，而经由乌克兰供应的俄国天然气占到欧盟天然气总消费量的五分之一左右。

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We all know what the world's worst industrial disaster was: the gas leak from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal in central India.

众所周知，发生在印度中部城市博帕尔市的天然气泄漏事件，当属世界上最严重的工业惨案。造成此案的是联合碳化物公司于当地所开办的工厂。

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The European Union is at the forefront of a global push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

Under his stewardship, the European Union has adopted an ambitious climate-change program that aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent or more by 2020.

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"It is a double track approach,of course, to have a very clear position on sanctions, not only on Security Council, but specific new measures from the European Union on the financial side - on the oil and gas sector, in all elements that can give to Iran a very clear message that they have to move and respond to the requirements of the international community."

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However, in order to meet European Union greenhouse gas emission standards, Poland is planning to switch a substantial part of its electricity production from coal to natural gas.

FORBES: Poland: Fracing On The Rise?

Gazprom exports energy to 32 countries and provides around 25 percent of the European Union's gas supplies.

CNN: Gazprom: Russia's most powerful company

Gazprom was born out of the former Soviet Union's Gas Industry Ministry and was partly privatised in 1993.

BBC: Price rises boost Gazprom profits