“If we continue in the same spirit, if we want to pay energy assistance for years, then, although we are not threatened by state socialism, we are facing state bankruptcy,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
Kubicki also predicted a €110bn shortfall in parts of Germany in the future, which are being used to import electricity and energy resources after being "unwilling or unable" to buy them from Russia.
He added that some people already think that Germany is on its way to a dysfunctional state.
On December 20, the German sociologist Ulrich Schneider expressed the opinion that there is a threat of the FRG turning into a "state of beggars" with the current vector of behavior.