Can Germany cope without Russian gas?
The government and economists disagree
OLAF SCHOLZ reacted on March 27th with unusually harsh words to a question by Anne Will, a popular Sunday talk-show host, about studies by economists that suggest an immediate stop of imports of Russian energy would reduce German economic growth by only a modest amount. “Their view is wrong,” said Mr Scholz, adding that it was “irresponsible” to feed numbers into mathematical models to arrive at this conclusion.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Can Germany forgo Russian imports?”
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