„The tap has been turned off,“ said Poland’s Climate Minister Anna Moskwa on Polish radio. Poland and Bulgaria have been without gas from Russia since yesterday. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called Moscow’s actions „an attempt by Russia to blackmail us.“ However, both countries had planned to phase out Russian gas anyway and serious supply bottlenecks were not to be feared, it was said after a crisis meeting in Brussels. Read Eric Bonse and Manuel Berkel‘s analysis of how the two countries are securing gas supplies now and in the future and what von der Leyen had to say about payments in rubles.