What price, solidarity? That’s the question Europe’s leaders have been asking since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February. The answer, it turns out is: not too high, a price, thanks. One German SDP politician, Florian Post, went viral last weekend after complaining that:
I don’t know if it’s just me, but I’m starting to find the Ukrainian ambassador’s impertinence unbearable. I condemn Russia’s war of aggression in the strongest possible terms, but I don’t feel like freezing, nor do I want a Third World War.
Such concerns were met with sarcastic offers to divert blankets and clothes from Ukrainian refugees to warm freezing Germans instead. Now, another of the continent’s less edifying politicians has made clear her thoughts on Europe’s current sanction regime towards Russia.
In a bizarre speech to the European Parliament today, Irish MEP Clare Daly denounced the EU’s measures against Moscow, saying that Brussels’s response ‘makes me sick’ and decrying attempts to replace Russian gas with ‘filthy fracked US gas.
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