Russian natural gas deliveries to Europe should continue uninterrupted in June as commercial disputes between Russia and Ukraine can be resolved in short order, Europe’s commissioner for energy said on Tuesday. “I’m quite optimistic we can [regarding to Europe] in the next days,” Günther Oettinger said in Prague after meeting with the Czech foreign minister. Russia has threatened to halt European Union-bound due to its failure to pay for deliveries between November and May. The stoppage could be averted however by a compromise solution in which Ukraine pays part of its outstanding bill as a show of good faith while it negotiates a new price for future deliveries. The future price should be closer to the market price that Russia’s OAO Gazprom charges its EU customers, he said. To limit the risk to EU energy security, Mr. Oettinger said the bloc and member states should bolster gas storage […]