Olaf Scholz Assures His Country Will Punish “All Who Benefit From Putin’s Regime”
Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government has offered to host and employ in Germany Russian citizens who are critical of the regime of its president, Vladimir Putin. “They would serve us very well in Germany,” Federal Economy Minister Robert Habeck said at the end of the extraordinary two-day meeting of the Scholz cabinet in the Meseberg Palace, north of Berlin. The also federal chancellor stressed that jobs will be offered to those who have already left Russia or do not want to return. Germany urgently needs qualified personnel and has more than a million vacancies in business and industry.
The chancellor, for his part, stressed that Russia was “completely wrong” to start a war in Ukraine. The Social Democratic politician stressed that Moscow now faces a stronger NATO, also east of its territory, and a more united European Union. The aggression has led to the formation of a community that will “ensure Ukraine’s military support with weapons supplied to Ukraine”, an operation in which Germany also participates. He also stressed that the new sanctions package announced by Brussels serves to make Russia realize the consequences of its actions.
Scholz pointed out that his cabinet meeting also discussed the draft sanctions implementation law, which aims to facilitate the implementation of punitive measures against “all who benefit from the Putin regime”. The government will lay the legal basis for the successful application of the sanctions, the Chancellor assured, noting that “the question of the political consequences” of the conflict and the need to deepen the European idea led to the meeting of the tripartite cabinet by the Social Democrats, with the Greens and the Liberal Party (FDP) as partners.
Scholz, Habeck and Christian Lindner, federal finance minister and Liberal leader, explained that other measures taken are intended to minimize the damage Germany could suffer as a result of the war in Ukraine. In this sense, the Chancellor announced a law to facilitate and accelerate the construction of two terminals for the reception of liquefied gas by sea and to reduce the country’s dependence on Russian natural gas. Scholz also defended the decisions his government has made so far, assuring that arms supplies to Ukraine are following “a precise line”, despite criticisms of the already overcome reluctance to send heavy equipment such as tanks.
The chancellor acknowledged that if he has so far not traveled to Kiev to personally express his solidarity with the Ukrainian people, it has been the brutality suffered by the Federal President, Frank Walter Steinmeier. “It is a problem for the federal government and the people that the invitation to the federal president has been withdrawn,” Scholz said, referring to the German leader’s April visit to Kiev being suspended by Ukrainian authorities. The head of the federal government said he hopes to be informed of his impressions by the leader of the conservative opposition, Christian Democrat Friedrich Merz, who traveled to the Ukrainian capital on Tuesday.
Source: La Verdad
I am an experienced and passionate journalist with a strong track record in news website reporting. I specialize in technology coverage, breaking stories on the latest developments and trends from around the world. Working for Today Times Live has given me the opportunity to write thought-provoking pieces that have caught the attention of many readers.
