The Trump Administration has presented European leaders with an annex to the peace plan proposed by the US, which stipulates that Russia’s economy should be reconnected to global business, following investments by American companies in the Russian energy sector. The final result should be, according to the Trump administration, the restoration of Russian energy flows to Western Europe, according to sources cited by WSJ.
Some European officials who have seen the documents said they can’t believe some of the US proposals. One official compared them to President Trump’s vision of building a Riviera-style development in Gaza. Another, referring to the proposed energy agreements between the US and Russia, said it is an economic version of the 1945 conference where the victors of the Second World War divided Europe. “It’s like Yalta,” he said.
Europe, which has tried to eliminate Russian gas since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 to block the financing of the war triggered by the Kremlin and to reduce its own dependence on a strategic rival, is reluctant to resume energy purchases from a country it considers the biggest threat to its security.
The German government has made great efforts to explain that European sanctions prohibit financial transactions related to the repair or reuse of Nordstream, which Ukrainian agents sabotaged in 2022.
The reports come in a context where, the French president E
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