Europe’s attempts to forge a common energy policy suffered a serious reverse on Sunday when a prominent EU minister likened a €5bn Russian-German pipeline deal to the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939.
Radek Sikorski, Polish defence minister, said Angela Merkel, German chancellor, had refused Warsaw’s request to renegotiate the deal, which Poland fears could leave it vulnerable to a shut-off of Russian gas supplies of the sort Ukraine suffered at the start of this year.
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Europe’s attempts to forge a common energy policy suffered a serious reverse on Sunday when a prominent EU minister likened a €5bn Russian-German pipeline deal to the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939.
