🇪🇺President @VonDerLeyen at #Davos2022: "This war and this 🇷🇺 behavior has only strengthened Europe's resolve to get rid of Russian fossil fuel dependency."
"The climate cannot wait. But now the geopolitical reasons are evident too. We have to diversify away from fossil fuels."
"The climate cannot wait. But now the geopolitical reasons are evident too. We have to diversify away from fossil fuels."
"🇺🇦 must win this war" says 🇪🇺President VDL. "Putin's aggression must be a strategic failure"
"We will do everything we can to help 🇺🇦 prevail and retake the future into their hands. For the first time in our history, 🇪🇺 is providing military aid to a country under attack"
"We will do everything we can to help 🇺🇦 prevail and retake the future into their hands. For the first time in our history, 🇪🇺 is providing military aid to a country under attack"
"We will – hand in hand – help Ukraine rise from the ashes," says @VonDerLeyen. "That is the idea behind the reconstruction platform that I have proposed to President @ZelenskyyUa.
"The amount of work is colossal. But together, we can and we will master the challenge."
"The amount of work is colossal. But together, we can and we will master the challenge."
VDL says Russia "is weaponising its energy supplies" as well as food security.
"Ukraine is one of world's most fertile countries. Even its flag symbolises the most common Ukrainian landscape: a yellow field of grain under a blue sky. Now those fields of grain have been scorched"
"Ukraine is one of world's most fertile countries. Even its flag symbolises the most common Ukrainian landscape: a yellow field of grain under a blue sky. Now those fields of grain have been scorched"
"In Russian-occupied Ukraine, the Kremlin's army is confiscating grain stocks and machinery," says 🇪🇺President VDL at #Davos2022.
"For some, this has brought back memories from a dark past – the times of the Soviet crop seizures and the devastating famine of the 1930s."
"For some, this has brought back memories from a dark past – the times of the Soviet crop seizures and the devastating famine of the 1930s."
"Today, Russian artillery is bombarding grain warehouses across Ukraine – deliberately," says 🇪🇺President VDL at #Davos.
"And Russian warships in the Black Sea are blockading Ukrainian ships full of wheat and sunflower seeds."
"And Russian warships in the Black Sea are blockading Ukrainian ships full of wheat and sunflower seeds."
"The consequences of these shameful 🇷🇺acts are there for everyone to see. Global wheat prices are skyrocketing. And it is fragile countries and vulnerable populations that suffer most," says 🇪🇺President VDL.
"#Russia is now hoarding its own food exports as a form of blackmail."
"#Russia is now hoarding its own food exports as a form of blackmail."
President von der Leyen says 🇪🇺working on 3 urgent solutions to the coming global #FoodCrisis resulting from #Russia's invasion:
🍞Getting grain out of 🇺🇦 to send from 🇪🇺ports
🚜Increasing 🇪🇺production to ease pressure on global food markets
🌍Helping #Africa produce its own food
🍞Getting grain out of 🇺🇦 to send from 🇪🇺ports
🚜Increasing 🇪🇺production to ease pressure on global food markets
🌍Helping #Africa produce its own food
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