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foreign policy principle, putting business first, not military power, was suddenly, it looked like weakness. chancellor olof shulz promised dramatic change. my guest is the state secretary for cooperation niels annen. so has germany got a new strategic vision? niels annen, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. pleasure. it is great to be here. let s start with the war in ukraine. i think there is no doubt that putin s invasion of ukraine shocked germany. would it be fair to say it has also destabilised germany? no, i don tthink destabilised germany? no, i don t think so destabilised germany? no, i don t think so but destabilised germany? no, i don t think so but it - destabilised germany? no, ll don t think so but it certainly shocked germany because a lot of our economic model was based on the assumption that we would continue using cheap russian natural gas and it was also based in a kind of historic, i want to say historic experience that although russia was a competi ....
policy making principle putting business first, not military power well, suddenly it looked like weakness. chancellor olaf scholz promised dramatic change. my guest is state secretary for economic cooperation niels annen. so, has germany got a new strategic vision? niels annen, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. pleasure. well, it s great to be here. let s start with the war in ukraine. i think there s no doubt that putin s invasion of ukraine shocked germany. would it be fair to say it has also destabilised germany? no, i don t think so. but it certainly shocked germany because a lot of our economic model was based on the assumption that we would continue using cheap russian natural gas. and it was also based in a kind of historic, should i say, historic experience that although russia was a competitor and an enemy in the cold war, it was always also, in economic terms, a quite reliable partner. and i think that was somehow, you know, seen as a constant policy. and we ....
chancellor olaf scholz promised dramatic change. my guest is the state secretary for economic cooperation niels annen. so has germany got a new strategic vision? niels annen, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. pleasure. it is great to be here. let s start with the war in ukraine. i think there is no doubt that putin s invasion of ukraine shocked germany. would it be fair to say it has also destabilised germany? no, i don t think so but it certainly shocked germany because a lot of our economic model was based on the assumption that we would continue using cheap russian natural gas and it was also based in a kind of historic, i want to say historic experience that although russia was a competitor and an enemy in the cold war, it was always also in economic terms quite a reliable partner. i think that was somehow, you know, is seen as a constant policy, and we did not really realise that it is not the soviet union anymore, it is a brutal dictator and an unpredictable dictato ....
my guest is state secretary for economic cooperation niels annen. so, has germany got a new strategic vision? niels annen, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. pleasure. well, it s great to be here. let s start with the war in ukraine. i think there s no doubt that putin s invasion of ukraine shocked germany. would it be fair to say it has also destabilised germany? no, i don t think so. but it certainly shocked germany because a lot of our economic model was based on the assumption that we would continue using cheap russian natural gas. and it was also based in a kind of historic, should i say, historic experience that although russia was a competitor and an enemy in the cold war, it was always also, in economic terms, a quite reliable partner. and i think that was somehow, you know, seen as a constant policy. and we did not really realise that it s not the soviet union any more. it s a brutal dictator and an unpredictable dictator. but what you ve just described is a very ....
on whether he will run in 202a. tonight with the context, stefanie brown james, co founder of collective pac, the group campaigning for equal representation in american politics, and tom peck, the political sketch writer at the independent. hello, warm welcome to the programme. vladimir putin is in a much better position to weather a fall in gas revenues than the eu is to survive a shortfall in supply. to prove that point, the russian energy giant gazprom will tomorrow make another decisive cut in the gas it sends through the nord stream i pipeline. it will flow at 20% of its capacity. that will ensure germany in particular will not have enough gas to replenish its depleted winter storage. and so today an emergency meeting in brussels eu energy ministers reluctantly agreed to reduce the demand for natural gas by 15% this winter. here s the eu announcement. today, we are sending a strong signal, not only to vladimir putin, who once again failed to divide the european union, bu ....