Schroeder Offers Solution to EU’s Energy Crisis

Former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has offered “the simplest solution” to Europe’s current energy crisis – to switch on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

Nord Stream 2 "is ready," he told German magazine Stern in an interview published on Wednesday, RT reported.

“The simplest solution would be to put the Nord Stream 2 pipeline into operation. If things get really tight, there is this pipeline, and with both Nord Stream pipelines there would be no supply problem for German industry and German households.” he said.

Otherwise, “you have to bear the consequences. And they will be huge in Germany, too,” Schroeder warned.