By Jan Strupczewski and Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Two top European Union officials on Tuesday called for joint borrowing to help the 27-nation bloc navigate the energy crunch together, after Germany faced criticism for going its own way with huge subsidies its peers could never afford. The energy price crisis – aggravated by Russia slashing gas supplies to the EU following Western sanctions over Moscow’s war against Ukraine – is threatening recession in Europe as it recovers from the COVID pandemic. Scrambling to respond, EU leaders are set to ask the bloc’s executive arm on Frid…