PUSH and PULL, the double-faced strategy dividing the EU from Russia

... for Economics Joshep Stiglitz went so far as to openly urge Europe not to sign the treaty, during an interview with Italian newspaper Il Manifesto15. Conversely, the EU, is not leaving itself any other choices really and it is now negotiating the TTIP from a position of inferiority, as a consequence of effectively shutting many sectors of Europe's economies out of Russian markets, and sustaining the wished-for economic hits cited by Joe Biden. Not to mention that the conditions of the economy in European area were already worrying to begin with, even without the “independent decisions” of the EU authorities, just to re-quote Ms. Mogherini's intervention. Gas at ...