BRUSSELS, Oct. 17 – The European Commission has included Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine in the European Gas Stress Test to see how Europe would cope in the worst-case scenario of restricted gas supplies, Vice President of the European Commission for Energy Gunther Oettinger said.

Ukraine is an important partner-country today which aspires for tighter association with the European Union, he said. Oettinger said that the country acutely needs gas and that is a gas transiting country.