How has trade between Ukraine and Germany developed since the beginning of the Russian aggression? In 2023, Germany became the third ($4.9B) largest exporter of goods to Ukraine and the fifth ($2B) largest importer of Ukrainian goods. Last year, exports to Germany recovered compared to 2022’s level... #Germany #UkraineExport #UkraineForeignTrade #UkraineImport #UkraineTrade
Germany is offering Ukrainian businesses up to €1M for eco-modernization of their production. The German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) is launching a new grant program for Ukrainian businesses. Enterprises that want to implement their own production eco-modernization projects are... #BusinessSupport #EcoModernization #Germany #GrantsForBusiness #Khust #ModernizationUkraine
Germany opposes the transfer of Russian assets to Ukraine due to fears of new WWII lawsuits. Demands for reparations stemming from WWII crimes have dogged Germany for decades. Calls for further reparations are appearing even now. In 2019, Greece demanded more than $300B in compensation, while... #Germany #ReparationsForUkraine #RussianAssets #RussianAssetsConfiscation #WWII
Norway joins the air defense system initiative, Sweden assumes the provision of Patriot systems, and Germany promises urgent delivery. Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said that his country will contribute financially to the initiative that provides Ukraine with additional air defense systems. He clarified that for this cont... #AirDefenseSystems #Germany #JonasGahrStore #MilitaryAidforUkraine #Norway #PatriotSystems #WarinUkraine
Germany will mobilize the private sector to rebuild Ukraine, and Italy will form a list of interested companies. On April 10, the German government will consider a comprehensive document on the mobilization of private sector resources for Ukraine’s restoration, the Ministry of Economic Development of Germany rep... #Germany #InvestmentsinUkraine #ItalyAidforUkraine #SupportUkraine #UkraineReconstruction #UkraineRecovery
Germany has confirmed that the possibility of launching Nord Stream-2 has been ruled out. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the German government are not even considering the possibility of putting the Nord Stream 2 pipeline into operation. This was stated by the German federal government ... #Germany #nordstream2 #RussianGasPipeline
Gazprom has informed Austria, Germany, and Italy about cuts in gas supplies. On June 15, OMV from Austria r announced a reduction in gas supplies from Gazprom. The company did not specify how much supplies have been reduced but stressed that “OMV can fully compensate fo... #Austria #GazpromSupplies #Germany #NordStream1
Germany accuses Russia of using energy as a weapon. German Vice-Chancellor and Economy Minister Robert Habeck accused Russia on Thursday of using energy “as a weapon,” following an announcement by the Russian government on Wednesday to impo... #Germany #RobertHabeck #RussianAgression #RussianOil
Dmytro Kuleba has proposed for German companies to relocate to Ukraine. On Thursday, Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba urged German companies to pull out of Russia and relocate to Ukraine. Kuleba tweeted, “As Russia keeps committing heinous atrocities in Ukrain... #DmytroKuleba #Germany #RussianAgression #WarinUkraine
Germany will not accept gas through Nord Stream 2. The German government has rejected speculation that it may activate the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany to compensate for gas flow reduction through Ukraine, stated the press secreta... #AnnikaEingorn #EUenergy #Germany #nordstream2 #RussianOilEmbargo
Germany makes another attempt to supply weapons to Ukraine. According to Spiegel, Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht announced on Tuesday at a conference on Ukraine at Rammstein Air Base that Germany wants to allow the supply of Gepard anti-aircraft weapons.... #ChristineLambrecht #Germany #GermanyWeapons #Panzerhaubitze2000
Germany will help Ukraine with grain exports. The German federal government wants to ensure that Ukraine can continue growing grain and delivering it to the world despite the war, reported Handelsblatt. The export of this year’s agricultur... #DBCargo #DeutscheBahnAG #Germany #GrainExports
Germany is ready for an oil embargo. The Minister of Economy, Vice-Chancellor of Germany Robert Habeck, believes that his country is prepared to abandon imports of Russian oil in the coming days. He is convinced that Germany can become c... #Germany #OilEmbargo #RobertHabeck
Germany will abandon Russian oil imports by the end of 2022, and then gas. Germany will halve Russian oil imports #AnnalenaBaerbock #Germany #RussianOil
Germany will allocate €2B for military equipment, mainly for Ukraine. A source in the German government said that Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to give an additional €2B for new military equipment, primarily to help Ukraine, reported Reuters. The money will be spent on n... #Germany #GermanyAid #GermanyMilitaryAid #OlafScholz #War
Germany says Ukraine needs more weapons. According to Bloomberg, German Minister of Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock says Ukraine needs heavy weapons. She noted that daily reports and pictures of atrocities in Ukraine make it all the more ... #AnnalenaBaerbock #Germany #GermanyWeapons #Ukrainewar #WeaponforUkraine
Germany is considering nationalizing the “daughters” of Gazprom and Rosneft. The German Ministry of Economics is considering the nationalization of Gazprom’s and Rosneft’s divisions due to concerns over the security of the energy supply, reported Handelsblatt. Suc... #Gazprom #Germany #Rosneft
The German Greens party’s opposition to the launch of Nord Stream-2. The co-chair of the German Green Party, Robert Habeck, spoke out against the rush to certify Nord Stream 2, saying “It was only possible if it complied with all European rules, not because of Kremlin ... #Germany #nordstream2 #RussianGas #RussianGasPipeline
The launch of Nord Stream-2 may be delayed until May 2022, reported Bloomberg. “If regulators want to use all the time allotted for the project, it can be approved no earlier than May 8, 2022”, the agency said. Earlier, Russian officials said that the Nord St... #Germany #nordstream2 #RussianGasPipeline
Only permission from Germany is required to launch Nord Stream 2. Speaking during an interview with the BBC, the Russian Ambassador to Britain, Andrei Kell, said that the Nord Stream 2 project awaits permission from Germany to launch the project. Michael McCall, a s... #Germany #nordstream2 #RussianGasPipeline
Ukraine, EU, US, and Germany should define “red lines” on “Nord Stream-2”, said the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Olga Stefanishina. One example of such lines is the agreement between Russia and Hungary on gas supplies bypassing Ukrainian territory. Ukraine is monitoring... #Germany #nordstream2 #RussianGasPipeline
Zelensky met with the President of Germany. The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, met with German President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier. He thanked Germany for supporting Ukraine at the highest level. “It is very important to see German Pr... #BabynYar #FrankWalterSteinmeier #Germany #Zelenskyy
Can Nord Stream-2 operations be impeded by sanctions? Despite the fact that Russia has announced the completion of the construction of Nord Stream-2, it can still be stopped by sanctions. This was the admission of Oksana Markarova, the Ambassador of Ukra... #Germany #nordstream2 #OksanaMarkarova #RussianGasPipeline
Opening of Nord Stream 2 blocked? The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is not exempt from EU rules requiring owners of pipelines to be different from the suppliers of the gas that flows in them to ensure fair competition, the Duesseldorf Hi... #Germany #nordstream2 #RussianGasPipeline
Enduring differences between Kyiv and Berlin on the implications of the scheme were highlighted during their joint press conference. Zelenskiy continued to insist that Nord Stream 2 is a political weapon which Russia will use against Ukraine and Europe. Merkel denied this and in... #AngelaMerkel #Germany #nordstream2 #Zelenskyy
The chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee joined counterparts from European parliaments, opposing the US-Germany agreement to allow completion of the Nord Stream 2 undersea gas pipeline. “We consider Nord Stream 2 a geopolitical project geared towards expanding Russia’s influence on Europe by dominating the energy market,... #Germany #nordstream2 #USsenate
Yesterday, Russia went on a charm offensive, talking up the new US-Germany accord that gives a flashing green light to Nord Stream 2. “Gazprom has always stressed its readiness to continue gas transit through Ukraine, including after 2024, based on economic feasibility,” Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said, TASS reported. “The matter of ... #Gazprom #Germany #nordstream2 #RussianGasPipeline
In Berlin, Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters that if Russia tried to use the pipeline as a weapon, “we are not without any tools to do something. ” However, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Germany negotiators blocked “a U.S. request for a so-called kill-switch clause, enabling Berlin to suspend gas flows in the event of Russian ... #AngelaMerkel #Germany #nordstream2 #RussianGasPipeline
Annalena Baerbock, the Green Party candidate to succeed Merkel in Germany’s September 27 national election, told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper that the agreement is “not a solution, especially not for security in Ukraine.” #AnnalenaBaerbock #Germany #nordstream2
The Wall Street Journal editorializes: “The deal with Germany is embarrassing in its weakness. In a joint U.S.-German statement on Wednesday, Berlin pledges to impose sanctions in the future ‘should Russia attempt to use energy as a weapon or commit further aggressive acts against Ukraine.’ We ... #Germany #nordstream2 #RussianGasPipeline
Calling the Russia-Germany line, “the Molotov-Ribbentrop gas pipeline,” Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, international business editor of London’s Daily Telegraph, mocks Washington’s assertion that the US-Germany deal will not allow the Krem... #Germany #nordstream2 #RussianGasPipeline
Timothy Ash, the London-based strategist for Bluebay Asset Management Company, asks: “Really does anyone believe that Germany will immediately suspend all gas delivery from Nord Stream 2 if Russia cuts flows thru Ukraine?” #Germany #nordstream2 #RussianGasPipeline
Germany and the US unveiled their compromise on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline yesterday, eliciting a wave of criticism from German Greens and US Republicans. Critics complained of a lack of language specifying when and how Germany would take the costly move of shutting down the pipeline t... #Germany #nordstream2 #RussianGasPipeline
Although the pipeline is 98% complete, a bipartisan group of Washington lawmakers told Politico that they are considering blocking must-pass appropriations legislation this fall if the Biden administration continues to withhold sanctions o... #Germany #nordstream2 #NordStream2completion #RussianGasPipeline
In a setback for Russia’s gas pipelines to Germany, Europe’s top court yesterday ruled that Gazprom must cut in half its gas volumes through Nord Stream 1 to German’s OPAL pipeline. The pipeline which runs from the Baltic to the German-Czech border, Reuters reports from Brussels. Under the EU’s Third Energy Package, the other half of Nord Stream 1 must be allocated to other shipp... #Germany #NordStream #RussianGasforEU #RussianGasPipeline
US and Germany are working to draw up a deal to shore up Ukraine’s energy sector to blunt the impact of Nord Stream 2 , Bloomberg reports from Berlin and Washington. Elements could include: building up a hydrogen production industry in Ukraine; requiring Russia to keep minimum gas flows across Ukraine through the 202... #Germany #nordstream2 #RussianGasPipeline
With a high-level German delegation meeting Biden Administration officials in Washington this week, the Senators told reporters in Kyiv that they will continue to try to block the Russia-Germany gas line. Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat of New Hampshire, said the pipeline licensing process and the ... #Germany #JoeBiden #nordstream2 #RussianGasPipeline
