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Germany should have been more independent of Russian gas since 2014, when the Russians took over Crimea, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in an interview with Der Spiegel this weekend.
Chancellor Scholz also admitted some mistakes in managing the Nord Stream 2 project.
“In case of emergency, Germany had to finance liquefied gas terminals as well as import infrastructure for oil refineries in East Germany, even if these were not economically efficient“, He admitted.
“The construction of the ‘Nord Stream 2’ pipeline has never been essential to the country’s supply“, Added Scholz.
“The problem is not that there are two, three or four pipelines, but the fact that they all come from Russia.”said the chancellor.
However, Scholz denies that Germany has backed the Russians by bypassing Ukraine, as contracts provide for gas to continue to flow through the country now attacked by Putin.
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