Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended her gas deal with Russia, supported German companies and maintained peace with Moscow, laying out her strategy in her memoir. freedomreleased in 30 languages on Tuesday.
Chancellor Merkel has vigorously defended her actions and her central role in European geopolitics because she is clearly too soft on Russia and has left Germany dangerously dependent on cheap Russian gas, leaving Germany dangerously dependent on cheap Russian gas. It was done to challenge those who blame the much-maligned open-door immigration policy for causing chaos. Since 2015.
AFP report His autobiography was published in his 70s at a time when the world was in turmoil due to numerous issues.
Wars are raging in Ukraine and the Middle East, Germany is in an economic slump, it faces early elections after its coalition government collapsed this month, and illegal immigrants are pouring into Europe and beyond.
Chancellor Merkel, who once posed for a selfie with a Syrian refugee, considers herself genuinely a force for good when it comes to dealing with Syrian refugees.
She says, “I still don't understand how anyone could assume that a friendly face in a photo could cause people to flee their homeland en masse.”
While asserting that Europe “must protect its borders,” she reportedly emphasizes in the book that “wealth and the rule of law will always make Germany and Europe a desirable destination.” .
What's more, Germany's rapidly aging population and lack of skilled workers make regular immigration “inevitable,” she writes.
During Merkel's 16 years in office, she served alongside four US presidents, four French presidents and five British prime ministers.
A stand displaying copies of “Freiheit.'' “Memories 1954 – 2021” by former Chancellor Angela Merkel is on display at the Duesmann Kultur department store on Friedrichstrasse in Berlin. This memoir has been published in more than 30 countries around the world. (Leonie Asendorpf/Photo partnership via Getty)
AFP reports that Merkel, who speaks Russian, will rely on her then engagement to German-speaking Russian President Vladimir Putin and the German-Russian Nord Stream pipeline that ultimately plunged the country into an energy crisis. He noted that he passionately defended the decision.
She describes the Russian leader as “a person who is always on the lookout for signs of disrespect towards himself, yet always ready to disrespect others.”
Nevertheless, she says she was “right to insist on maintaining relations with Russia until the end of her term.”
“After all, Russia is one of the world's two largest nuclear powers, along with the United States, and is geographically a neighbor of the European Union.”
Chancellor Merkel said the gas Germany purchased from Russia was needed as an energy source during the transition period, as Germany was moving toward both renewable energy and phase-out of nuclear power following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. said.
She also opposed Germany's return to nuclear energy, saying: “We can meet our climate goals and achieve technological success without nuclear power, while at the same time emboldening other countries to follow our example.” I can do it,” he wrote.
Nord Stream 2, which she approved after Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, at the time required companies and gas users in Germany and many EU countries to accept that they would have to import more expensive liquefied natural gas. It would have been difficult to obtain one, AFP claimed. Gas from other sources.
Out of necessity, therefore, it became necessary for Germany to remain a customer of Russia, even as it entered Ukraine and disrupted world politics.
