Putin has gambled away gas leverage, says German vice-chancellor
by Philip Oltermann in Oslo from on (#67GT9)
Robert Habeck says half of our eggs were in the basket of Putin' but Germany is now recovering capacity
Vladimir Putin has gambled away his gas leverage over Europe, Germany's vice-chancellor has claimed as he sounded a note of cautious optimism over his country's energy supplies during a visit to Norway.
Russia's war in Ukraine had caught Berlin at a vulnerable moment since it was over-reliant on natural gas deliveries through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline and had failed to build up infrastructure for alternative supply channels, said Robert Habeck, the German deputy head of government and economic minister.
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