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Germany Wants EU Push to End Last 20% of Russia Energy Imports

www.bloomberg.com Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

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The German federal government pushing the EU towards sensible energy policy?? Am I dreaming?

This made my day!
- The government is kind of progressive now. The green party is part of it. The conservatives are not part of it at the moment...
  
  Oh I'm aware of "the traffic light", it just feels like it's been a while since Germany pushed the EU forward instead of holding us back (arming Ukraine, regulation about combustion engines in future cars, etc)
- I guess (and hope) Scholz is not like Merkel, but German leadership is kind of hit or miss.
  
  The understatement of the century
  
  Scholz literally modelled himself after merkel, also he is a corrupt pig. Most sort-of sensible decisions happened despite him, not because of him
Good, green and security goals align with weaning off cheap russian fossil fuels, this will be good for energy independence in the long term.
- Isn't Germany changing nuclear for fossils? That's the last I heard but I'm not up to date.
  
  They did that because of Fukushima and some sociological factors in the german population (which maybe come from Chernobyl's time too)...I'm sure they regretted putting all chips on gas after the invasion of Ukraine...but then again with what is happening in the ZNPP, I'm not so sure anymore. Germany is not in a seismic zone, but it is in the European plain after all, which is a recurrent geopolitical problem.
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/germany-wants-eu-push-to-end-last-20-of-russia-energy-imports

No paywall.
Paywall.
Won't happen. Orban (atleast) is against it.
And buy it from Azerbaijan or Venezuela instead? Woah great humanitarian move
- No, buy from Turkey, which gets Russian oil and rebadges it as Turkish.
  
  haha that is even better!

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