By Mateusz MORAWIECKI, Prime Minister of Poland
The European Union is in a difficult position today. We are still struggling with successive waves of pandemic infections. We have just started rebuilding our economies after the crisis and the necessity to restrict economic life. The Recovery Fund has not been yet implemented for good, and the risk of an energy crisis looms on the horizon. Higher gas prices hit ordinary citizens’ pocket. For the first time in Europe's post-war history, future generations cannot be sure that they will inherit a better future.
Pressure on Europe arises. Russia uses the gas issue to blackmail and force individual states for them to take decisions in favour with Russian particular interests. On the EU's eastern...
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