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While the energy crisis that started after the war by Russia in Ukraine caused the European Union to have a hard time, a remarkable move came from the President of France, Macron.
The war that started with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to take lives all over the country.
After the attack that started on the morning of February 24, the USA and EU countries decided to impose sanctions against Russia, and began to provide weapons aid to Ukraine.
Europe, which is dependent on Russian gas, has been living with the fear of ‘gas cuts’ for a while, so to speak.
According to the news in the British Express newspaper, one of these countries, France He found the solution to turn to his former colony.
macron The question of “Was there an Algerian nation before the French colony”, which had decided to reduce the quota of travel visas given to Algerians last year, caused a crisis.
The newspaper wrote that Macron was going to Algeria for the natural gas deal and announced the news to its readers with the headline ‘Macron had to make an embarrassing U-turn’.
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The following statements were included in the article;
‘Macron travels to Algeria in an embarrassing U-turn to change France’s dependence on Russian energy.’
Thanks to its large natural gas reserves, Algeria has recently become the focus of attention of the European Union, which is trying to reduce imports from Russia.
WHICH COUNTRIES ARE ON THE LIST?
Upon the sanctions from the West, Russian President Putin officially announced the new era in natural gas sales with the words “We are planning to use Russian Rubles when selling gas to unfriendly countries”.
With the decree signed by Putin, the list of ‘unfriendly countries’ became official in the past months.
The list published by the Russian government included the USA and all EU countries.
Ukraine, Montenegro, Switzerland, Albania, Andorra, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Norway, San Marino, North Macedonia, as well as Japan, South Korea, Australia, Micronesia, New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan were also on the list.
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