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Jordan Bardella, thee president of National Rally, estimated Friday on franceinfo that the economic sanctions decided against Russia have actually “enriched” the latter, since it would have turned to “other partners”, such as India.
“Be careful not to do anything under the influence of morality” and “forgive me for thinking first of the portfolio of the French”, warned Friday May 6 on franceinfo Jordan Bardella. The president of the National Rally reacts to the European Commission’s proposed embargo on Russian oil, while Europe has already paid 46 billion euros in hydrocarbons to Russia since the start of the war in Ukraine.
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“The problem is that it does not work. What is taken away from Russia, Russia recovers it elsewhere”he believes, worrying more about the “cost of these sanctions for the French”. “Do you want us to end up in a few weeks with a liter of gasoline at 3.5 euros?” “When I hear the President of the European Commission come to explain to the European Parliament that the people will have to make additional efforts, I answer that they cannot”says Jordan Bardella.
“What does it mean to make an effort on gas? Heat with a candle? What does it mean: to make an effort on gasoline? No longer going shopping, no longer taking your children to school?”
Jordan Bardellaat franceinfo
The president of the National Rally notes that Russia has turned to “new partners”such as India, to which it sold “twice as much oil since the start of the war in Ukraine as throughout 2021”. “These economic sanctions massively enrich Russia and it is the peoples of Europe who pay.”
The president of the National Rally rather pleads for “an agreement between all gas exporting countries” for them to make a financial effort. “Algeria, the Netherlands, the United States, England, Norway” must, according to him, “to sit around the table” and “collectively decide to sell gas at its average price for two years”. “This mechanism will allow to break the hyper profits of Russia and to prevent that Russia continues to enrich itself.” Anxious not to “increase tension”Jordan Bardella also favors delivering “defensive and not offensive material to Ukraine”. “You have to keep in mind that our objective must be to bring the players around the table.“He says he is in favor of Ukraine and Russia “take part in the G20” so that “all of these countries are thinking about how to find peace”.