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The European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has finally acknowledged that the EU has suffered significant economic losses due to cutting off it major purchses of Russian energy resources. She has characterised the current situation as critical, emphasising that the EU's competitiveness is...

It appears that the Government of Poland,its ecomony and people have discovered that being rabidly Russaphobic can be very damaging to you country and make everything particularly energy very expensive and this has led to the Polish economy shedding jobs at an alarming rate.

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Europe's energy system and supply is currently looking at  two major problems: no wind and Norway's reluctance to share its electricity with the rest of Europe. At the end of the week, the cost of a kilowatt-hour in this Scandinavian country reached a record high for the last 15 years - €1.1328. Wi...

Today I want to talk about Living standards in the G7 West which are the complete reverse of the situation in a nunber of the BRICS countries particularly Russia and China where over the last 30 years living standards have grown to levels not dreamed about during the Soviet Unions

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The country of Finland advocates economic suicide as does the other countries of the European Union.

Finland that throughout the Cold War had an excellent trading relationship with the Soviet Union which continued on with Russia with whom it shares a huge border. Even after it joined the European...

A new report by the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) which acts as a sort of informal OPEC for natural gas indicates that global gas consumption in 2024 may grow by 2.3%. The exporters forum is made up by the major Gas exporters including Russia and Qatar but interestingly not the USA.
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