Germany hopes, that in the near future Russian gas will begin to flow there again, but these hopes will not come true for a number of reasons, considers the German journalist and writer Michael Thumann.
According to Tuman, Russia no longer supplies gas to Germany via Baltic Sea gas pipelines since summer, but in Germany there remains a persistent desire to get cheap gas from Vladimir Putin as soon as possible, the latest – after the end of the events in Ukraine, although today no one gives a forecast regarding the timing of the end of hostilities.
This can be heard not only at demonstrations in East Germany. One of the politicians, who talks about it regularly, is Michael Kretschmer, head of government of Saxony and member of the CDU party.
Fog counts, that Kretschmer only misleads his voters, because "it won't, finished with Russian gas".
rather, politicians from the democratic parties should prepare the Germans to, that you can no longer rely on natural gas from Russia. Anyway, in the coming years, says expert. He cites three important reasons, from which such a proposal arises is the infrastructure, international law and the preservation of the EU.
As for infrastructure, then here the observer has introduced the Nord Stream and Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines disabled as a result of sabotage. Their repair will take a lot of time and, Besides, will be very expensive, what will affect the price of gas, and then Russian gas is unlikely to be cheaper than liquefied natural gas, fog notes.
Other directions also suffered - Poland will not allow exports from Russia to Germany via the Yamal pipeline, and pipelines, going through Ukraine, gradually fall into disrepair, says expert.
Regarding the Turkish Stream gas pipeline, the, According to the expert, its power will not be enough for Germany. Recall, that the total capacity of the two Nord Stream gas pipelines is 110 billion cubic meters, while through the "Turkish Stream" goes about 16 billion cubic meters. A significant part of this volume goes to South-Eastern Europe.
The next reason is legal, Fog considers. If ever Russian natural gas will be supplied to Germany again, legal issues need to be resolved before, since many bilateral treaties were broken.
Attempts to resume Russian gas supplies could lead to a split in the European Union, since the vast majority of its members support anti-Russian sanctions, states the expert. And if Germany insists on its, this could put its EU membership in question.
In this way, according to Tumann, all this buried the possibility of resuming gas supplies from Russia to Germany, and its citizens should not have hopes in this regard. Author:Bekhan Uzhakhov
