Cut Energy Alliance With Macron To Fend Off Putin

The UK has been urged to save the EU from its dependency on Russian oil and gas, which has been blamed for the recent gas crisis that has been gripping the continent.

Photo Insert: French President Emmanuel Macron

This comes after Moscow sent prices soaring by decreasing gas deliveries traveling into the continent through Russia’s vast network of pipelines, Antony Ashkenaz reported the Daily Express.

In fact, gas flow has been diverted away from the West and towards the East for nearly 30 days straight. This has sent prices skyrocketing to record highs, even surpassing the record prices seen back in October. October’s surging prices were also blamed on a Russian gas squeeze.

Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned gas giant, has been accused of deliberately withholding gas deliveries to the bloc to speed up certification of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. But its certification has been suspended, much to the disdain of the Kremlin, who claim an operational Nord Stream 2 would ease Europe’s crisis.

Ben Judah, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank, tweeted: “Most audacious thing Macron could do to respond to the current geopolitics?

“Propose a European but not exclusively EU nuclear energy alliance with its objective to dramatically reduce dependence on Russian and all other forms of oil and gas. Push the German mistake.”

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