EU seeks solidarity to withstand Russian gas cutoff
It has been decades in the making, a cooperative partnership based on an assumption audaciously out of sync with current world politics: that countries can be persuaded to forgo their national interests, even some of their sovereignty, in defense of shared values and common goals.
But that assumption at the heart of the 27-member European Union is now being tested as rarely before.
And how successfully the union hangs together will have implications beyond the EU itself. Russian President Vladimir Putin clearly hopes that the
