German Foreign Minister: If the import of energy from Russia stopped tomorrow, we would have electricity for a few weeks

“If all energy imports stopped overnight, it would mean we would have electricity and heating for a few weeks,” the German foreign minister warned on Friday. Analena Berbockresponding to criticism leveled at the German Government because insists that energy supply be exempted from sanctions against Russia.

«How many days could we endure people not being able to go to work, not having electricity in kindergartens or not running hospitals?“, Asked Ms. Berbok from Kosovo, where she is visiting and stressed, according to the APE BPE, that”we need to be calm about such matters in these times, even when our hearts are breaking».

However, the Foreign Minister assured that “if that meant the war would stop tomorrow, then we would».

What German citizens say

In Germany, however, according to the “Political Barometer” of the second channel of the German public television ZDF, in favor of the boycott of energy imports from Russia is the 55% of respondents, while the opposite view is expressed by 39%.

Most of the supporters of the embargo belong to Social Democratic Party (SPD), in Christian Union (CDU / CSU) and in Greenswhile the continuation of the supply of natural gas and oil from Russia is mainly demanded by the voters of Liberals (FDP), of Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Left.

Source: News Beast

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