The EU president has a go at Putin

The editorialist Franco Venturini considers the very firm position taken by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel towards Putin on Tuesday, January 9th, when she accused him of unilaterally reducing the exportation of petrol to Europe because of the conflict opposing it to Belarus. "'Unacceptable'. Nine days after taking over the rotating EU presidency and twelve days before meeting Putin, Angela Merkel rightly used a very harsh term to condemn the new partial block of energy provided by Russia, now being imposed because the Kremlin is in conflict with Minsk, just as it was with Kiev a little over a year ago. ... If Europeans want to continue developing, they absolutely must be able to count on the regularity of Russian supplying ... . And if Europe does not wake up in time, it will only have nuclear energy left, for everyone".

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