EU leaders will on Friday discuss how the bloc would cope without Russian gas, and are expected to accuse Moscow of “weaponising” energy via a supply squeeze that Germany warned could partially shut down its industry this winter. A day after celebrations over setting Kiev on the road to membership of the bloc, Friday’s summit in Brussels is set to be a sober reflection on the economic impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. read more Leaders of the 27 European Union nations will, according to a draft summit statement seen by Reuters, place the blame for soaring inflation and sagging global growth on the war that began exactly four months ago. Following unprecedented Western sanctions imposed over the invasion, a dozen European countries have so far been thumped by cuts in gas flows from Russia, triggering a frantic search for alternative supplies across the […]