STORY: NOTE: This post will be sent to you with no narration. O-TON FEDERAL CHANCELLOR OLAF SCHOLZ (SPD) “We have agreed that the energy ministers will now examine the proposals carefully for advantages and disadvantages and that we will then discuss them further on this basis at the next EU Council in Brussels. I have the I also took the opportunity to explain the German defense shield to my colleagues again and to place it in the European context. That was important and certainly helped to clear up misunderstandings. In any case, our decisions are within the framework of what others are also making Make Europe. But of course, our program of 200 billion euros to relieve the citizens of the high gas prices, the high energy prices is a program that is necessary.” “At the same time, I pointed out that Europe has a lot of financial power to face this crisis. A fifth of the funds from the big Next Generation program, which we decided together during the German Council Presidency, have been paid out. So there are still 600 here Billions of euros are available for crisis management. These 600 billion, supplemented with additional national funds, are a huge European contribution with which we counter Putin’s attempts to bring Europe to its knees through blackmail. You will not succeed.” “I think it’s very important that we give a clear answer to the threat of nuclear weapons that we’ve heard. And this answer has to be: Everyone should leave it alone. That would be dangerous for the world and the use of nuclear weapons is unacceptable.”