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Berlin targets Africa to wean off Russian gas

2022-05-24T17:23:10.997Z


Chancellor Olaf Scholz is touring the continent, Senegal and South Africa. From our correspondent in Berlin To discover Taxes 2022: all about your tax return Powerless to resolve the Ukrainian crisis politically, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz turns into a European energy salesman, eager to quickly find an alternative to Russian gas, which provides 35% of the country's imports. Plowing unusual ground for German diplomacy, the SDP head of government ended a three-day tr


From our correspondent in Berlin

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Powerless to resolve the Ukrainian crisis politically, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz turns into a European energy salesman, eager to quickly find an alternative to Russian gas, which provides 35% of the country's imports.

Plowing unusual ground for German diplomacy, the SDP head of government ended a three-day trip to Africa on Tuesday.

He started his tour in Senegal, which wants to supply the Twenty-Seven with LNG, and finished it in South Africa, where a green hydrogen sector is developing.

On Friday May 20, the Chancellor received the Emir of Qatar in Berlin, whose kingdom said it was

“ready

” to supply LNG to Germany from 2024.

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Germany accelerates to wean itself off Putin's hydrocarbons

Deeply destabilized by the Kremlin's entry into the war, the coalition is forced to reorient its energy diplomacy with the daily stated objective of weaning itself off Russian gas, next year at the earliest.

In Pretoria, Olaf Scholz visited a factory of the petrochemical…

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Source: lefigaro

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