Woidke on PCK: "Continue to struggle with difficulties"

Created: 09/16/2022Updated: 09/16/2022 15:02

Dietmar Woidke (r) takes part in the press conference on the package of measures alongside Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (M) and Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck.

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Brandenburg's Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke was pleased with the concept for securing the PCK oil refinery in Schwedt, but also expects difficulties.

"Unfortunately, we cannot promise that everything will run smoothly and happily in the future," said the SPD politician on Friday.

The decision for state control of the oil company Rosneft Germany is a positive signal in difficult times.

Berlin - People's fears were taken away a little, said Woidke with a view to the future of the industrial location.

The federal government had announced that the majority owners of the PCK refinery - two subsidiaries of the Russian state-owned company Rosneft - would be placed under trusteeship by the Federal Network Agency and thus under state control.

The background is the oil embargo against Russia because of the Ukraine war, which takes effect on January 1st.

This strongly affects the oil refinery in Schwedt.

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