United against Putin: How the Ukraine war unified the EU – BBC Newsnight

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Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Europe was divided on arming Ukraine, reliance on Russian energy and cutting off Russia’s banks.

But since then, there has been a broad consensus.

Those hooked on Russian gas are looking elsewhere and it is open season on the oligarchs.

In the face of a real threat of conflict, has the EU has remembered what it was created to do?

Newsnight’s International Editor Gabriel Gatehouse assesses the landscape of a newly united Europe.

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