for hofstadter was all in on sanctions at the outset of the ukraine conflict. and now he's angry. that the very idea for which so many year a deputies just like himself were lobbying so hard, has backfired. according to the data from the european union's own statistical agency, euro stat, the value of imports to east countries from russia in 2022 has increased. and by 346 per cent, from 2021. in the case of sylvania, which imports petroleum products and fertilizers from russia. in fact, the only you countries that didn't send more revenues to russia in 2022 were finland, lithuania, denmark, latvia, estonia, sweden, and ireland. in terms of euro's germany was russia's top you customer in 2022 with 20700000000 euros worth of russian imports. poland was 2nd sending 10400000000 euros worth of revenue to moscow. ahead of italy, france, the netherlands, and belgium. and we've also just learned that poland pledge to stop importing russian pipeline oil by the end of 2022 is about to be broken now as well. so how exactly have you countries manage to send even more cash to moscow despite br

contributor ritual moss and has the details member of european parliament from belgium gave her hofstadter tweeted his outrage at a new report detailing how the blocks anti russian sanctions have resulted in an increase of revenues to moscow from e u countries. he says that the effect of the sanctions as quote less than 0 and that the e u is quote, rewarding russia for its war against us. or, you know, maybe the use war against itself. but back in february, the same euro deputy was mashing is keyboard tweeting furiously about the need for sanctions. prudent brings europe back to its darkest hours. peace and stability are at stake. not only do we need to launch the full scale of sanctions and help ukraine with equipment through the european piece facility. we also need to draw hard lessons, a european defense and energy union. well, actually it's europe. that's bringing europe back to its darkest hours, because everyone's during the lights off to save on energy bills at the behest of the government. according to the data from the european union's own statistical agency, euro stat, the value

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