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It's like an industrial wart placed in rural landscapes, nestled in the hollow of a valley.
The sudden sight, around a bend, of the Schwedt refinery disturbs the harmony of the place.
Its presence ulcerates environmentalists and embarrasses the Scholz government, but the inhabitants of this peaceful and sleepy town are attached to it as the apple of their eye.
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For Berlin, the factory represents the last link linking Germany to Russian oil, which the Minister of the Economy is ready to blow up.
Robert Habeck, leader of the Greens, announced his decision in Brussels where the 27 energy ministers have been meeting since Monday to adopt an oil embargo.
In Schwedt, it is the end of a world, inherited from the GDR, which the war in Ukraine hastens.
A complex and cumbersome reality
"
The refinery is the city, and the city is the refinery
", sums up Annekathrin Hoppe, its first magistrate who, moreover, exercised her profession of engineer there 35 years ago.
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