Responsibility must be shared by everyone.
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Berlin Russia turns on the gas tap. Only 20 percent of the agreed volume is currently arriving in Germany via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. There is enormous concern that President Vladimir Putin will turn off the gas supply to the Germans completely.
A new study shows that this doesn’t have to be a problem. Germany can get through the winter without Russian gas. But there is one big but: consumption. Because it has to go down significantly further.
The study is a new edition of the much-cited Bachmann study, named after the German economist Rüdiger Bachmann, who teaches at the US University of Notre Dame. Together with ten other economists, including researchers from the Ifo Institute and the University of Bonn, he analyzed the situation in Germany’s gas supply in March shortly after the outbreak of war.
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