Gas used as a geopolitical weapon by Russia.
This is what the European Union is beginning to denounce, so far cautious about pointing out the Kremlin.
In Moldova, the increase in prices is the
"consequence of an instrumentalisation of the gas supply",
slices the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, targeting Moscow.
At the end of an "association council" between the Union and Moldova, the high representative of the EU confirmed the will of the Europeans to help the small country, former Soviet republic, to face the crisis. Russian pressure.
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Moldova's gas contract with giant Gazprom expired at the end of September and the two sides failed to agree on a new price.
At the heart of the dispute: Gazprom's proposal to increase prices by 43% and its demand that Moldova pay its debt of more than 370 million euros.
Prices that the country cannot pay and an unrecognized "historic" debt since it is largely the bill
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