About this, according to TASS, he said in an interview with DPA.

“Confidence has been lost so fundamentally that there will never again be a situation in which the German federal government can bet on energy from Russia,” Weill said.

He is confident that Nord Stream 2 will never be put into operation.”

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the lifting of sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline could provide Europe with additional volumes of gas amid the energy crisis.

Alexei Belogoriev, Deputy Director for Energy at the Institute of Energy and Finance, in an interview with the Economics Today FBA noted that there is no ordinary trade in the energy and gas sector - relations between countries and companies are of a strategic nature.