Roberto Abraham Scaruffi: Another Winter of Discontent: Europe Fails to Wean Itself off Russian

Tuesday, 13 January 2009

Another Winter of Discontent: Europe Fails to Wean Itself off Russian

The dispute between Russia and Ukraine seems to have been resolved, but the question of blame remains. Did Moscow deliberately risk allowing half of Europe to go without heat merely to teach Kiev a lesson? Whoever is to blame it is clear that neither Brussels nor Berlin did much over the past few years to avert the crisis.