When they are suffocating in the scorching heat of their apartments, this is the least of the worries of Parisians, Berliners or Londoners.
However, European leaders are already worried about the coming winter.
With good reason: it will be tough!
As in the
Game of Thrones
series , the motto
"Winter is coming"
does not bode well.
The “White Walker” of Europeans is called Vladimir Putin and he challenges them on the other side of an invisible wall, the new iron curtain he has erected between Western democracies and his autocratic world.
With his gas war, the master of the Kremlin is fanning the threat of a recession in Europe.
As with the euro crisis and the wave of migration, the energy shock of winter 2022 will test its unity.
Putin is exercising his gas blackmail on the EU in response to the sanctions imposed on Russia, which notably hit oil exports crucial to its economy.
Its calculation is simple: gas exports represent only…
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