{"id":352,"date":"2014-10-21T11:18:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T11:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=352"},"modified":"2014-10-21T11:18:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T11:18:30","slug":"germanys-merkel-agrees-with-angry-slovak-leader-that-ukraine-bums-eu-to-pay-for-russian-gas-washingtons-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s Merkel Agrees with &#8216;Angry&#8217; Slovak Leader that Ukraine Bums EU to Pay for Russian Gas Washington&#8217;s Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/10\/germanys-merkel-agrees-angry-slovak-leader-ukraine-bums-eu-pay-russian-gas.html\">Germany&#8217;s Merkel Agrees with &#8216;Angry&#8217; Slovak Leader that Ukraine Bums EU to Pay for Russian Gas Washington&#8217;s Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">On October 21st, the<em style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\u00a0<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0066cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"German Economic News\" href=\"http:\/\/deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de\/2014\/10\/21\/merkel-eu-steuerzahler-sollen-schulden-der-ukraine-finanzieren\/\" target=\"_blank\">German Economic News<\/a><\/em>\u00a0 headlined (as translated), \u201cMerkel: EU Taxpayers Should Finance Debt of Ukraine,\u201d and reported that, \u201cAngela Merkel visited [Slovakia&#8217;s Finance Minister] Robert Fico on Monday [in the Slovak capital of Bratislavia]. Both leaders demand that Kiev should take more responsibility,\u201d and not push the EU to pay Ukraine\u2019s past-due gas bills from Russia\u2019s Gazprom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Ukraine\u2019s leader, Petro Poroshenko, was \u201cdemanding\u201d that the EU bail out Ukraine, which is months behind on its gas bill from Gazprom, and which furthermore has been getting Slovakia to reverse flow of Russia\u2019s gas, in order to meet Kiev\u2019s own heating-needs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\u201cUkraine and Russia negotiate Tuesday morning in Brussels about the dispute over gas supplies,\u201d to Europe, through Ukraine\u2019s pipelines from Russia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\u201cRussia demands that Ukraine pay its past-due gas bill of $4.5 billion, but doubts Kiev\u2019s solvency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Merkel proposes that the EU provide a bridge-loan to help Ukraine get through the winter. She says, \u201cIt could not be expected that the EU will take over Ukraine\u2019s gas debt to Russia. Fico\u2019s anger is understandable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#8230;click on the link above to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s Merkel Agrees with &#8216;Angry&#8217; Slovak Leader that Ukraine Bums EU to Pay for Russian Gas Washington&#8217;s Blog. On October 21st, the\u00a0German Economic News\u00a0 headlined (as translated), \u201cMerkel: EU Taxpayers Should Finance Debt of Ukraine,\u201d and reported that, \u201cAngela Merkel visited [Slovakia&#8217;s Finance Minister] Robert Fico on Monday [in the Slovak capital of Bratislavia]. 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