“On February 24, 2022 we entered a change of era and Germany quickly adapted to this new reality. A reality in which we no longer cooperate with Russia. In just a few months, we have transformed Germany’s energy supply and become independent From Russia”. gas, oil or coal. We are working to reduce the one-way dependency on our economy,” Scholz said.
Thus, he answered the question of the journalists who asked him the following: “Angela Merkel’s legacy has been called into question by the conflict in Ukraine. Do you think that your predecessor made mistakes (in her approach to Russia) and what did her government to correct them?”
Scholz’s tour of South America begins on January 28, during which the German chancellor intends to visit Argentina, Chile and Brazil, where he will resolve political, commercial, energy and climate issues with the presidents of these countries, the newspaper reported.
Earlier it became known that Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva rejected the German government’s request for the supply of ammunition for Leopard tanks, which Berlin will transfer to Kyiv. Lula da Silva refused, stating that “the Russians must not be provoked.”
