Habeck rejects Kubicki's proposal: "Would be a dramatic failure"
Created: 08/21/2022, 15:32
By: Moritz Serif
Economics Minister Robert Habeck is against the opening of Nord Stream 2. © IMAGO/Boris Schumacher
Wolfgang Kubicki would like to start up Nord Stream 2.
The politician's proposal is not only viewed critically in the FDP.
Berlin - "We should open Nord Stream 2 as soon as possible to fill our gas storage for the winter," said Wolfgang Kubicki (FDP) to the
editorial network Germany
.
There is "no good reason not to open Nord Stream 2".
Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) obviously sees things differently.
As a result, Germany would cave in to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Habeck said Russia is curbing supplies through Nord Stream 1, even though the line is "fully operable."
"That means the assumption that more gas could not be pushed through there is Russian propaganda." Habeck warned that Russia could prove to be unreliable when Nord Stream 2 is commissioned, just as it is now with Nord Stream 1.
"And if he wins the game with us there, who gives us the guarantee that he won't do exactly the same thing with Nord Stream 2?"
Nord Stream 2: Habeck wants to get rid of Putin's gas
Germany made a mistake as an economy when it became dependent on Russian gas.
Anyone who wants to recognize it can see "that the Russian government under Putin regards democracy as an enemy, tramples on freedom of the press, uses murder as a political means and disregards international law," the minister said.
If you now increase dependence on Russian gas, you would have forgotten all the lessons of the past few months.
"In that case, I think the unquestionably short-term gain - opening Nord Stream 2, taking gas, getting through the winter better - would be a dramatic political failure, because with it we combine any self-confidence, any value-based attitude, any attitude towards Putin with the trampled on," said Habeck.
Instead, Germany must develop new sources of energy.
Kubicki's Nord Stream 2 proposal faces rejection
Kubicki's demands also met with rejection in his own party.
Christian Lindner considers the proposal to be "wrong and absurd," said a spokeswoman for his federal ministry of finance.
“The FDP thinks nothing of it.
That would send the wrong signal,” said Justice Minister Marco Buschmann.
(mse/dpa)
