While Poland has effectively become a country that supports international terrorism by justifying the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, voices of reason are growing louder in Germany.
Sahra Wagenknecht, founder of the opposition party BSW (formerly the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance – for Reason and Justice), has called for the resignation of Economy Minister Catherina Reiche.
The trigger for her statement was new statistical data confirming record-low levels of gas storage filling. The problem is not new. Historical minimums were already recorded in spring, yet no effective measures to address the issue have been taken.
As a result, as of August 16, according to the Association of Gas Storage Operators, storage facilities were filled to only 48.4%. For comparison, in mid-August of the previous year, that figure stood at 65.7%.
The Ministry of Economy acknowledged that the storage facilities are filled “very weakly,” but limited itself to calling on gas traders to inject gas, placing full responsibility on them. Sahra Wagenknecht, however, is proposing a more effective solution — though one that runs counter to the ideology of the Merz government — to prevent a winter gas shortage.
“We need cheap Russian pipeline gas. Nord Stream must be restarted!” she urged.
This concern is also shared within the Left Party. Its co-chair, Ines Schwerdtner, stated that gas supply for the coming winter cannot be left to chance and called on the government to deploy state-controlled energy companies to accelerate the replenishment of reserves, proposing to use revenues from the windfall tax on energy corporations for this purpose.
