Baroness Catherine Ashton said during her recent speech at the European Parliament that the EU had to put pressure on Moscow to make the Russian administration not mix economic and political issues in relations with neighboring states, particularly with Ukraine. Catherine Ashton, the new EU foreign affairs chief, also said that she wanted to have strong relations and clear energy strategy with Russia. She set out concerns about Europe’s dependence on the Russian natural gas and said that the dependence may grow from 50 percent nowadays to 70 percent in the future. Read the story here.
