Brussels, 29/05/2009 (Agence Europe) - European Commission President José Manuel Barroso announced on Friday 29 May that, at the forthcoming European Council on 18-19 June, he would raise the issue of the difficulty Ukraine faced in paying Russia for its gas and the possibility of the EU providing financial assistance to enable it to do so. Barroso told press in Brussels that he had “promised” Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in a telephone call on Friday that he would “raise the...