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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (L) speaks with Russia’s energy giant Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller as they visit the Lakhta Centre skyscraper, the headquarters of Russian gas monopoly Gazprom in Saint Petersburg on June 5, 2024.

Four Years of Sanctions: Russia Endures, Europe Pays the Price

Javier Villamor February 24, 2026

Sanctions have reduced the Kremlin’s margins, but they have neither curbed its exports nor eased Europe’s energy crisis.

The Great Rebalancing: How Europe Chose Dependence Over Resilience

Javier Benegas February 9, 2026

Decline is not an act of nature. Civilisations lose influence when they abandon the principles that once sustained them—initiative, productive investment, innovation and a belief that the future can be better than the present.

Sovereignty by Slogan, Dependency by Contract

Tobias Teuscher February 8, 2026

The EU cannot claim to be reducing dependency while reinforcing structural reliance on the very systems that underpin security, technology, and capital flows.

LNG tanker in the Bay of Pomerania seen from the Sellin beach in Germany in May 2023

From Moscow to Washington: Brussels’ New Energy Dependency

Javier Villamor January 27, 2026

While the Commission claims it does not want to swap one dependency for another, it is helping entrench a more expensive energy model increasingly controlled from Washington.

one of two nuclear power cooling towers falling down

Who’s Really Crashing the Economy?

Sabine Beppler-Spahl October 31, 2025

The establishment elite’s fake consensus is dragging Germany into the abyss they claimed only populists could create.

Hungary Faces Dilemma Over Russian Oil as U.S. Tightens Sanctions

Lukács Fux October 24, 2025

PM Viktor Orbán has begun talks with oil company MOL on solutions to the new circumstances.

Gas burner -- Illustration Russian energy

UPDATED Brussels Decides To Cut Off Russian Gas to Hungary and Slovakia

Javier Villamor October 20, 2025

The plan to phase out Russian gas completely is dividing Europe.

Tag: energy dependence

Four Years of Sanctions: Russia Endures, Europe Pays the Price

The Great Rebalancing: How Europe Chose Dependence Over Resilience

Sovereignty by Slogan, Dependency by Contract

From Moscow to Washington: Brussels’ New Energy Dependency

Who’s Really Crashing the Economy?

Hungary Faces Dilemma Over Russian Oil as U.S. Tightens Sanctions

UPDATED Brussels Decides To Cut Off Russian Gas to Hungary and Slovakia

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