“It’s summer now, we want to go out, we want to be free again after two years of the pandemic, but winter is on the threshold.
Now.
Politically stands in front of the door.
And we must solve the paradox with the provision that we must now take measures, although right now they are imperceptible, which we will need in the winter, ”RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
There is a "gas crisis" in Germany, although the security of supply is now "guaranteed," the minister said.
Habek noted that if after the completion of traditional preventive work on the Nord Stream gas pipeline in July, “the situation escalates,” then Germany will find itself in a situation where it “does not have enough gas to survive the winter,” the Vice Chancellor believes.
According to the Federal Network Agency of Germany, at the current level of gas pumping through the Nord Stream, filling German storage facilities up to 90% by December seems almost impossible without additional measures.