“We will not do this ourselves, it would not be entirely responsible.
If we refused in one day what continues to flow, then we would complicate the task for ourselves, ”TASS cites his answer to a question about Germany’s ability to independently abandon Russian gas.
Scholz added that the German government has taken steps to reduce dependence on gas from Russia.
“We can now say that even if it is very difficult, we will probably manage this winter,” the politician stressed.
Earlier, the Prime Minister of the federal state of Bavaria, Markus Söder, said that the German authorities are having problems finding alternatives to gas supplies from Russia.
On August 22, Scholz announced plans to negotiate with Canada on the supply of raw materials to replace Russian.
As the newspaper Die Zeit later wrote, Scholz's attempts to negotiate gas supplies with Canada were unsuccessful: at current gas prices, exports from Canada to Europe simply do not pay off and it is not known whether it can pay off in the future.