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May 16 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING:

European Commission, France and Germany all announced that European energy companies should be allowed to pay for gas in rubles at a closed meeting between EC representatives and EU diplomats in Brussels on late Friday evening.

Poland & the Netherlands were outraged.
Poland’s PM Mateusz Morawiecki says that he is disappointed by how the EU is handling the issue and says that Russia unilaterally cut Poland off from Russian gas in breech of the contract signed between the two.

Source: PAP (The Polish Press Agency)

businessinsider.com.pl/gospodarka/kom…
At the meeting, the French side went even further and said that European companies could open bank accounts in rubles in Russian banks without this being an act that goes against EU sanctions.
The German diplomat told the EC he had consulted the EC’s new position with all German companies importing Russian energy & that they were pleased with the new stance.

The Polish diplomat wondered how the German had managed to consult them all within minutes of the announcement.
Several countries said that the EC had taken an unacceptable position considering what is happening in Ukraine.

The Dutch diplomat asked the EC how they envision Russia to access and convert euros into rubles on the two western accounts and that Russia shouldn’t have access too
The meeting was called on short notice on a late Friday evening by France (holding the rotating presidency).

Other diplomats did it is a trick that is often used to attract as little media attention as possible to controversial subjects.
The diplomat representing Italy stated that the government in Rome also believes that European companies are allowed to convert euro into rubles for Russian gas payments without breaking sanctions.
The full article about how the EC is reversing on previous statements by Ursula van der Leyen (who claimed that solutions based on converting euros into rubles would go against the EU’s sanctions) can be read on the page of the Polish Press Agency

pap.pl/aktualnosci/ne…

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May 15
A series of scandalous statements on Ukraine by Lula da Silva in his big interview with TIME.

The Brazilian presidential candidate and main opponent of President Bolsonaro stated:

“Zelensky is just as responsible for the war as Putin is”.

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Apr 28
Bulgaria has officially joined the anti-Russian coalition.

Bulgaria’s PM announced it a press conference.

"The policy of sitting back pretending there is no aggressor doesn’t work.

We aren’t looking for conflict but when war comes to our doorstep we will repel the aggressor."
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Apr 24
Big news from Italy.

Corriere della Sera reports that Italian PM Draghi is preparing to send heavy weapons to Ukraine in the next military aid package.

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Apr 20
BREAKING:

Bild has revealed that Scholz lied in yesterday’s press conference after his phone call with Biden.

Scholz has removed all heavy weapons from the list of weapons (tanks, IFVs & artillery).

Ukraine asked Germany for these weapons on April 16.

Big scandal brewing.
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Scholz said yesterday that Ukraine can by anything on the list but didn’t say he has crossed out all the good stuff
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Apr 17
Thousands of Germans took to the streets today in 70 cities to protest against German rearmament.

Protesters waved banners with slogans such as: "those supplying arms will harvest war”.

Protests took place in Berlin, Hanover, Munich, Cologne, Leipzig, Stuttgart & Duisburg.
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Interesting idea.

At the 7th European Congress of Local Governments, influential Polish politicians from across the spectrum agreed with the statement:

“This is the moment to create a Polish-Ukrainian Union”.

It could be a way for Ukraine to join NATO $ EU immediately.

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The politicians who agreed with the statement:

➡️ Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, Head of the PSL Party

➡️ Jarosław Gowin, Head of the Agreement Party

➡️ Cezary Przybylski, Head of the Lower Silesia Region

➡️ Maciej Gdula, New Left MP

➡️ Czesław Bielecki,PIS-associated politician
The politicians underlined recent statements made by President Zelensky and the fact that such a union would have a population of 80+ million.

Source: The Polish Press Agency (PAP)

pap.pl/mediaroom/1157…
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