Russia's decision to turn off gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria shows that it is an unreliable trading partner, the EU energy commissioner told the European Parliament on Thursday.
The US will aid its European allies in supplying natural gas to Poland and Bulgaria after Russia halted deliveries to both countries, US President Joe Biden announced on Thursday.
Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, has criticised Russia's decision to halt gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria, and vowed to make the EU independent from Russian fossil fuels.
The presidents of eight Central and Eastern European countries, including Poland, called on European Union member states to immediately grant Ukraine an EU candidate country status.
Russia has said it is closing its airspace to flights from Poland, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria in response to similar measures introduced by these countries due to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this week.
Defence ministers from Poland and eight other countries have issued a statement calling for the strengthening of Nato's eastern flank "from the Baltic to Black Sea".
Polish President Andrzej Duda has said that the 12 countries in the "Three Seas" region of Central and Eastern Europe are responsible for "a huge part of Europe's economic growth."
President Andrzej Duda has extended Poland's foreign military missions in the Middle East and Europe.
Maxim Minchev, director-general of the Bulgarian news agency BTA, passed away in hospital on Sunday, at the age of 67, after getting infected with COVID-19.
Infrastructure ministers from nine EU countries, including Poland, which are against the EU's Mobility Package, wrote in a joint statement that the solutions, which were both protectionist and incompatible with EU laws, were unacceptable.
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