During the recent Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia and its European partners agreed to their stakes in the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline to Germany, which bypasses Ukraine.
In the end, Gazprom inked several major deals with Austria’s OMV and Germany’s Wintershall companies.
“What we now see is that the western companies, above all German, are already ignoring the anti-Russian sanctions because they know they will not be punished for that, and that the sanctions won’t last long,” the magazine noted.
This means that all the talk about the need to make Europe less dependent on fuel supplies from Russia was nothing but hot air and that this interdependence keeps growing.
As for the EU’s decision to extend its sanctions against Russia for another six months, this is just an attempt to save face, the author wrote.
Some politicians believe that the Ukrainian crisis has been put on the back burner by the current migrant crisis in Europe. The author does not think so.
“Newsweek put the most accurate tag on this whole situation in a article headlined: “Forget Ukraine. It's Business As Usual Between Europe and Russia,” Literarni noviny wrote in conclusion.
