China steals a march while EU dawdles in Africa
By Raffaello Pantucci
31.01.2008 / 00:00 CET
Rather than the usual winter decision to turn off the gas taps to Ukraine or Belarus, Gazprom kicked off 2008 with the announcement that it was looking towards investing in Nigeria. The immediate Western paranoia about this is all the more absurd given Europe's continuing insistence on a gradualist approach to Africa that is so plainly not working.
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