During a conversation with Habeck, a journalist asked him whether the minister resorted to the help of the Office for the Protection of the German Constitution to combat inconvenient opinions in his ministry.
"You're with Russia Today, aren't you?"
- Habaek asked in response.
Answering a question, the German politician began to argue that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “attacking Europe” and allegedly trying to destabilize the German energy system.
Habeck explained his working methods by saying that employees should always undergo a reliability check, after which he deviated from the topic and said that certain Russian correspondents were discrediting liberal democracy in Germany.
Last September, it became known that the European Commission was cooperating with German authorities on how to prevent the work of RT and the video agency Ruptly, which is part of the television network.
Before this, the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel published an article about the “threats to democratic societies” that the work of RT DE allegedly poses.