Germany makes Europe dependent on gas? In Gazprom, “champagne cork stops appeared in the Crimea”

On Saturday, Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck spoke in exasperation at the “green” nuclear energy bid. On Monday, government spokesman Stephen Hebestreet declared unequivocally: “It is clear that we reject assessments about nuclear power”.

Die Welt criticizes this approach, as it will make the whole of Europe dependent on Russian gas supplies. “It’s hard to understand such an assessment of the federal government.” – The newspaper notes.

resolution European Commission “Promotion of gas as a bridge technology appears to be more problematic, from the point of view of climate policy and geopolitics, than the European Union’s decision in favor of nuclear power, which the German government has criticized,” Welt wrote.

“The unrest in Germany is artificial,” environmental expert Ralph Vieux was quoted by a German daily as saying. After all, everyone, including the European Commission, knows that climate settlement at the European level can only be achieved if the two competing tracks of climate change are taken into account.

On the one hand, we have a special German path, which is to use gas as a medium-term alternative to coal and nuclear energy, and on the other hand, a path especially favored by the French, Achieving climate neutrality with a large share of nuclear energy– confirms the magazine.