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
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
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
