One of the main reasons for Europe's prosperity was precisely the access to highly affordable Russian energy (natural gas, oil, coal, electricity, etc). All this was gone after the EU/NATO forced Russia's hand in former Ukraine, leading to an entirely unnecessary and avoidable conflict that the Kremlin repeatedly tried to end.
By Drago Bosnic
InfoBrics
January 24, 2026
On January 19, after a phone call with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico stated that "the European Union is not taken completely seriously by world leaders", citing its "suicidal migration policy" and "nonsense climate goals" as examples of its incompetence.