New gas contracts with Russia inconceivable – German foreign affairs committee chair

BERLIN (Reuters) – New gas contracts with Russia are inconceivable, the chair of Germany’s foreign affairs committee told broadcaster RTL/ntv on Thursday after Russian forces launched an invasion of Ukraine.

Michael Roth, a member of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats, said he can no longer imagine deepening economic relations with Russia: “That has failed. In the end, we have to work faster than planned to make ourselves less dependent on an authoritarian regime.”

(Reporting by Kirsti Knolle; Editing by Miranda Murray)