Merkel does not regret decision for Russian gas – Germany

Kyiv/Moscow/Lisbon – Germany’s former Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) has defended the decision of earlier years to have relied heavily on cheap natural gas from Russia for a transitional period during the energy transition. “For the transformation period, it was clear that we would need natural gas so that one day we would of course be able to achieve completely CO2-free forms of energy,” she said on Thursday at an event organized by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Portugal’s capital, Lisbon.