Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that she does not regret the energy policy followed during her 16 years in power, which placed Russia as one of her main gas suppliers.
“Even during the Cold War, Russia was a reliable energy supplier,” added Angela Merkel, who traveled to the Portuguese capital as the president of the jury for an award dedicated to efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
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“I don’t regret the decisions made at all,” he said, saying he had “not changed my mind” about abandoning nuclear power.
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, the center-right former prime minister has been accused of increasing Europe’s dependence on Russian energy, including by promoting the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline despite reservations from his European and US partners. .
His successor, Olaf Scholz, for his part, claimed that Germany had “depended too long and too unilaterally on Russia’s energy supply”.
However, Angela Merkel recognized that the war in Ukraine had changed the situation. “This brutal attack by Russia has caused a change, it is a caesura. And the new government, of course, has to deal with it, and it does,” she said.
Source: BFM TV
