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A. Burbok: If we stopped importing energy from Russia tomorrow we would have electricity and heating for a few weeks

“If all energy imports stopped overnight, it would mean that we would have electricity and heating for a few weeks,” warned Foreign Minister Analena Berbock, responding to criticism of the German government for insisting that energy supplies be excluded from the economy. sanctions against Russia.

“How many days could we endure people not being able to go to work, not having electricity in kindergartens or hospitals not working?” to be calm about such matters in these times, even when our hearts are broken. ” However, the Foreign Minister assured that “if this meant that the war would end tomorrow, then we would do it.”

In Germany, however, according to the “Political Barometer” of the second channel of the German public television ZDF, 55% of the respondents are in favor of the boycott of energy imports from Russia, while 39% express the opposite opinion. Most of the supporters of the embargo belong to the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Christian Union (CDU / CSU) and the Greens, while the continuation of the supply of gas and oil from Russia is mainly demanded by the voters of the Liberal Party (FDP), Germany (AfD) and the Left.

Source: AMPE

Source: Capital

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