“What is UP with these people?!”
They are most likely a coalition of anti-humanists, anti-American power groups, pro-Communists and basically everybody who against America having a leading role in anything except global warming and other wealth redistribution schemes. They are, in short, enemies of everybody you and I cherish.
A year or so ago, there was proposed legislation in front of the EU Parliament in Brussels that would have banned fracking and shale gas exploration throughout the EU. Despite some REALLY intensive lobbying for an EU-wide fracking ban, the EU Parliament decided that each member could set its own policies in regard to that matter.
And who pray tell did the intensive lobbying?
GAZPROM. My shocked face, let me show you it. /