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'Reliance on one supplier is usually also a bad business decision. Except, if somebody else carries the risks. In the case of Russian gas and oil, it turned out that taxpayers did'

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Does Germany's politics need a new business model?

Last July, Constanze Stelzenmüller of the Brookings Institute said that "Germany outsourced its security to the US, its export-led growth to China, and its energy needs to Russia."

Six months later, the last part of the sentence is no longer true.

Germany has stopped importing Russian energy. The dependency has been broken, alb...

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Michael Meyer-Resende is the executive director of Democracy Reporting International, a non-partisan NGO in Berlin that supports political participation.

'Reliance on one supplier is usually also a bad business decision. Except, if somebody else carries the risks. In the case of Russian gas and oil, it turned out that taxpayers did'

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Michael Meyer-Resende is the executive director of Democracy Reporting International, a non-partisan NGO in Berlin that supports political participation.

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