Metsola, in the face of the Russian gas crisis in the EU: “We have lacked an energy union for too long”
The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsolahas underlined the importance of “dismantling Europe’s energy dependency on Russia as much as possible” as a “final strategy” to deal with the energy crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and has forcefully warned of one of the main causes of the current situation in the bloc: “having lacked an energy union for too long”.
In an interview granted to Europa Press on the occasion of his visit to Santander on Tuesday, where he will attend the Global Youth Leadership Forum with King Felipe VI, Maltese politics has stressed the importance of forging this “union“, an issue that now arises as a priority to stop the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, before the advance of Russian troops in eastern Ukraine.
“For me this is the first thing we should do. The second thing is to continue helping Ukraine. If we don’t, Putin won’t stop. He said that he would take Ukraine in three days, that Finland and Sweden would never join NATO, and look what we have achieved,” he asserted before clarifying that there is a need to “fight against the autocracy and all those who seek to destroy us.”