“Our production is already suffering from a loss of competitiveness due to the difference in energy prices in the US and in Europe,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
Le Maire urged European countries to protect their interests, since it is not worth waiting for "gifts" from Washington.
He also called industrial recession the main threat to the European Union.
Earlier, the Global Times wrote that the United States seeks to benefit from the Ukrainian crisis in all respects, in particular by weakening European countries.
According to Senator Alexei Pushkov, the United States is deliberately harming the EU economy in order to gain political control over Brussels.
Former Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte expressed confidence that the strategic interests of the EU should not be reduced to the benefit of the United States.