The experts and politicians currently negotiating throughout Europe are sweating not only due to the high summer temperatures. Their worries about the stability of gas supply for next winter is also making them perspire.
For now Moscow is tolerating how some European Union countries are helping out Ukraine since Russia stopped supplying the country with natural gas in mid-June. Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly warned the Europeans backing up Kiev, since the latter owes USD 4.5 billion for Russian natural gas deliveries. (The debt has grown immensely recently after Ukraine refused every suggestion for compromise, resulting in Gazprom gradually raising …read more
Source: The Budapest Times
