German Deputy Ernst said that when buying gas for rubles, you will have to violate EU sanctions.
The head of the German Bundestag committee on climate and energy, Klaus Ernst, in an interview with RBC called a condition for gas supplies for rubles, saying that this would have to violate EU sanctions against the Central Bank.
According to him, in such a scenario, Germany will be forced to bypass its own restrictive measures against Moscow. “Germany would have to receive rubles from the Russian Central Bank and thereby circumvent its own sanctions,” the deputy noted.
He also noted that the freezing of Russian assets abroad can be regarded as a violation of agreements with the Russian Federation.
On March 23, Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that Europe pay for Russian gas in rubles. “I have decided in the shortest possible time to implement a set of measures to transfer payments – let’s start with this – for our natural gas supplied to the so-called unfriendly countries, for Russian rubles,” he said. The head of state instructed the government to issue a corresponding directive to Gazprom on amending existing contracts.
