Former foreign minister and Green Party politician Joschka Fischer thinks it is right that the federal government is rejecting an immediate ban on imports of Russian gas and oil. “It’s easy to ask for, but if you have to weigh that up, whether you’re going to trigger a major economic crisis with hundreds of thousands of unemployed people — I think you can fully trust the federal government to do whatever it takes to get out of this long-term dependency come out,” said Fischer at the Lit.Cologne literature festival in Cologne, where he presented his new book “Zeitenbruch”. The federal government will try everything that is justifiable in terms of sanctions, “but it will take time.”
Fischer also spoke out against a no-fly zone over Ukraine. “The risk is enormous,” he said. Of course you have to help Ukraine wherever you can, but one should not forget that Russia is one of the largest nuclear powers. When asked whether Russian President Vladimir Putin would at least shy away from a nuclear war, Fischer said: “I hope that there is a residual spark of rationality in Vladimir Putin.” From 1998 to 2005, Fischer was Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor in the red-green coalition of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD).
Source: Stern
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