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An Interview with Peter Altmaier, Germany’s former Energy Minister

ARC ENERGY IDEAS

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German Gas - How Did Germany Allow Itself to Get So Dependent on Russia?

Angela Merkel was always concerned about the development, where domestic production was shrinking. Germany has bought gas in other countries to fill its storage capacities now at 95% and they are full. But we have not been as dependent as it has sometimes been said. It has been very expensive to buy the gas elsewhere. And then under the impression of a potential change in the German attitude, Mr Putin used gas as a weapon as long as he could use it that is now.

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