Greenpeace activists gathered in Brussels’ European quarter today, unveiling large effigies of US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The protest aimed to warn the EU against deepening its dependence on imported fossil fuels. Standing beneath the two figures, campaigners urged Europe to invest in renewables instead of turning to what they called ‘unreliable partners’.
Greenpeace campaign manager Anna Peters said the group wanted to remind leaders of the lessons from Russia’s energy leverage. ‘We can’t swap one dependency for another,’ she said, calling on the EU to speed up its transition to clean energy sources.