President Vladimir Putin has warned that Europe “will keep freezing” if the European Union goes ahead with the proposed price limit on Russian energy.
noted ahead of the Nord Stream 1 shutdown, “European gas prices are now about 10 times higher than their average level over the past decade.”
The European leaders have reacted to this by threatening to put a cap on Russian gas revenue. “The European Union proposed a price cap on Russian gas on Wednesday after President Vladimir Putin threatened to cut off all energy supplies if it took such a step, raising the risk of rationing in some of the world’s richest countries this winter,”Germany is witnessing the rise of a new anti-establishment movement in the eastern part of the country.
On Monday, thousands gathered in the eastern German city of Leipzig to protest against the surging living cost and fuel prices. “Thousand of right- and left-wing demonstrators protested in inner city Leipzig against energy and social policies in the federal government,” the German weeklyThe mainstream media fears that the protests in the eastern part of Germany, basting of the right-wing Alternative for Germany party, could become a weekly feature, giving birth to a new populist movement.
In the 1980s, the weekly “Monday Marches” triggered mass unrest, which led to the fall of the Communist regime in East Germany. PEGIDA, the populist German movement against mass migration, also arose from these weekly marches in early 2014. “Protesters from Germany’s left and the right have called for regular Monday protests against the rising cost of living. These evoke the peaceful revolution in East Germany but also of recent anti-immigrant rallies,” the German state broadcaster
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