Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin have had something of an odd-couple relationship.

She speaks fluent Russian and he speaks fluent German but there has always been a cool distance between the two. But as Germany’s reliance on Russian energy looks set to increase, we ask whether Berlin -- and thus the EU -- is becoming something of a captive to the Kremlin?

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