The German government secretly prepares an action plan in case Russia unilaterally decides to disable gas, reports Reuters with reference to sources.
According to the agency, the plan, the preparation of which is managed by the Ministry of Economics, provides for urgent assistance in the form of loans to energy firms, as well as the government to control the key to the energy of enterprises. As one of the possible measures is called the standardization of gas consumption, and the first to be required to limit the use of household gas, not industry, the agency writes. According to him, this will mean a change in the current policy, according to which in such cases the enterprises are the first to fall under the restrictions.
According to one of the sources, the heads of the largest companies in the industrial sector of Germany asked the government not to refuse gas from Russia. Another interlocutor clarified that the business assured the country’s leadership that he would independently reduce connections with Russia, but asked him to “not force him to do it immediately.”
Germany wants to get rid of dependence on Russian gas and is now negotiating, in particular, with Qatar about a sharp increase in liquefied gas supplies, but is not going to get rid of it immediately, but by mid -2024, the BBC Russian service writes. Ahim Trueger member of the German Council of Economic Experts said on Monday in an interview with the Rheinische Post newspaper that if the supply of Russian gas is blocked right now, then a person can lose their work in Germany, and the economy will fall into a recession.