BERLIN — Germany’s conservatives appear increasingly willing to restart the flow of Russian gas — at least in theory.
“If one day a just and secure peace [with Ukraine] is established, then we should also be able to discuss purchasing Russian gas again,” said Jan Heinisch, a politician with the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and a negotiator in his party’s federal coalition talks with the center-left Social Democratic Party.
“Never again in the same dependency as before, not under a price dictate — but Russia is one supplier among many in the world,” he told POLITICO.
Heinisch, from the energy and climate working group in the coalition negotiations, is tasked with shaping energy policy for a CDU-led German government under chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz.
