Europe's choices
The choices of Europe's leaders measured against the facts: who Europe depends on for energy, what is left of the market with Russia, how the war in Ukraine came about. In every piece the facts are kept apart from our assessment.
The EU cut Russian gas faster than expected, but households pay almost twice as much for gas and the new dependence lies across the Atlantic.
Was a great market between Europe and Russia taking shape before the war? The data show that trade had already peaked in 2012. American interests against it, on the other hand, are documented.
Verbal promises never written down, treaties signed and then broken, ignored warnings, a trade dispute and eight years of war in Donbas: the facts that are uncomfortable for every side, in order.