As EU nations prepare to discuss the times and ways of a possible one embargo to the oil Russia, the country hardest hit by potential hydrocarbon supply disruptions from Moscow, warns that halting purchases does not mean halting supplies War. The German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), which is at the center of fierce criticism from the Allies at home greens and FDP On his position against heavy arms deliveries to Kyiv, he states in an interview with Der Spiegel: “I don’t think that the Russian gas embargo would end the war. If it was Putin sensitive According to economic arguments, he would never have started this crazy war. Second, we act like we’re talking about money. But there is talk of avoiding one severe economic crisisthe loss of million jobs and the closure of factories that would never open again”. The fact remains that Moscow collects gas and oil from the EU on an approximately daily basis 800 million a day, resources with which he conducts the invasion of Ukraine. And Kyiv continues to demand that this flow of money be stopped.
In the interview titled “What are you afraid of, Mr. Scholz?” titled on the cover, the Chancellor acknowledged Berlin’s past mistakes that he should have made more independently from Russian gas already after 2014, when there was a conflict over the Crimea. “In an emergency, Germany should have financed liquid gas terminals and import infrastructure for East German oil refineries, even if it was not economically viable,” he said. The construction of the pipeline north stream 2 (whose certification was suspended shortly before the invasion began) was never essential to the country’s supply, he added: “The problem is not that there are two, three or four gas pipelines, but that they all come from Russia”. However, Scholz denies having supported Germany the bypass Ukraine: The contracts stipulated that gas would continue to flow through the country now under Putin’s attack.
Just today the former chancellor Gerhard Schrödera longtime lobbyist on behalf of Gazprom and President of Nord Stream 2 and Director of RosneftHe criticized that in an interview with the New York Times sanctions saying, “You can’t do that isolate a country like Russia neither politically nor economically in the long term”. Referred to in the article as “Putin’s man in Germany,” Schröder, after stressing that the war was a “mistake,” also claims that Putin is “interested in ending it,” but “it’s not easy.” because “there are a few points to be clarified”, which he does not specify. Marco Wanderwitz (CDU), former Federal Government Commissioner for Eastern Europe, called him “Chancellor of shame”.