tell you it's just the time the unpaid mirror is a lawyer by profession. he's come to the town hall to attend a meeting on the budget. as a precaution, he didn't include any revenue from north stream to in the budget, and he no longer considered north stream one a certainty. household everybody was not. we will have to talk about whether we should postpone some projects if you'd like, or maybe reconsider or delay them. and so we can be sure that in the event that energy sanctions are imposed, we won't end up with a lack of money to finance our projects. in good 15, it's young to put it in the house. i feel tiny, lou me now suddenly finds itself in the midst of saber rattling between moscow, keys, berlin, and washington. let's take a closer look at what this means for europe and its energy security with karen patel. she is a professor freakonomics and head of the for center for energy climate and

resources in munich. welcome to a d w. karen. what if president put, were to use energy as a weapon and cut gas supplies to europe? i mean, in the, in the short term, i don't think much would happen apart from rising prices. i mean, that is still a threat that is out there. but the longer basically he is delivering, he is exporting fossil fuels, especially gas. the less problematic the situation becomes because winter is progressing. the real problem would occur next winter because we would have to fill our reserves in the summer. it would feel the gap in the winter the entire winter, so that would be the real problem. europe and germany, particular say, energy sources need to be diversified away from russian fossil fuels. how quickly is that possible?

i mean, what is possible is to some extent to increase the imports off l n g. although there is capacity limits with respect to those imports. there's currently only some limits or some of them, it's not reached in the south of europe. and then it's of course, always the option to re fire up and to reuse more coal to potentially in germany. let the last remaining nuclear power plants run longer. but the long run option really is to go for a faster expansion off of renewable energy and decrease in demand through energy efficiency measures and the like. and which one do you think is more likely, amid this situation of crisis right now? at the moment and like i said, everybody is mainly concerned about next winter. so the aim will be to actually fill up the gas tanks in the summer. and to assure that for example, ellen g,

but also pipeline gas is routes to germany. so trying to get the contracts in advance, in the medium term, it's going to be the renewables expansion combined with. and that will be the good question because we were counting on natural gas. and so one option would really be that if russia is not exporting in the long run, that gas prices, higher gas prices would actually, ex elite, an expansion of the ellen g capacities. and that is already happening. it might just increase and paste and dealings comes at the price a price or dealing with this, with the short term demand that that might have to be bridged a when it comes to moving away from, from a russian fossil fuels. where is l n g liquefied natural gas going to come from? i mean there's, of course, a number of sources cut off among them the u. s. australia. so there is already

a number of, or quite some allergy capacities out. there is just so far. asia is in pate importing, the bulk of it and the capacities in europe in comparison are relatively small. and karen, as this conflict is nowhere from being resolved right now. and obviously there are a lot of issues at stake here. outline for us, your vision of how energy security will, will be managed in the coming years. i mean, in the coming years i would say ok, press the button on the renewables because this is been lagging in germany, but that has been the aim all along for last year. and then combine that with a more diversified and secure energy, especially energy input that would require on the one hand, of course, for example, building new terminals in germany, but also other locations, but also improve the connectivity within europe within the gas grid. because so far,

i mean there's capacities free in spain is just the question, how to get it to the places where it's needed. karen patel of the for center for energy climate and resources and munich. thank you for talking to us. thank you. russia has not only a major supplier of energy to the global market, it's also the world's largest exporter of wheat. and one of its most important customers is turkey. the country that has been grappling with its own economic crisis for months now people in turkey have been suffering from high inflation. and now many people fear already high prices could rise even further. the opposition is taking advantage of the bad mood people in istanbul can vent their anger on mobile posters. if you're not in line for gasoline, you're in line for subsidized bread they say, or give us back our youth. inflation rows by almost 50 percent in january compared

to the same month last year. more and more people fear for their livelihoods. but what we used to buy for one year and now costs $3.00 leer us. what we used to buy for 10 years is 30. there is now. in other words, people can no longer afford to buy food and bread. me let alone shopping and travelling ally food is so expensive because turkey has to import a large part of its needs. its most important supplier for grain is russia. the city, when we talk about relations with russia, we usually think about weapons or energy yet, but much more significant is that turkey is very dependent on the russian agricultural market, especially for wheat, barley of sway beans, sunflowers, cornwell, we buy everything from russia bathroom to go to ukraine is also one of the world's

largest wheat growers. now there's fear that the pressure on prices will increase further due to rushes, ongoing invasion. and this at a time when many in turkey can only afford state subsidized bread from all its calls over to assemble. and d, w correspondent, johannes report. you just saw julia if the situation with russia is so difficult and prices are likely to rise further. could turkey get its grains from other suppliers? well, turkeys, agriculture, ministry recently said that it does not expect grain supply shortages due to the conflict and that it could turn to other sources. but if you look at the figures, russia and ukraine together account for nearly 80 percent of turkeys, wheat imports. and right now it's unclear if these 2 countries will and can continue to supply. and at which cost, even if other global suppliers like canada or the u. s. would step in,

it's likely to get more expensive because of rising transportation and energy costs . experts here in turkey, economists tell me that they do expect for the price hikes for basic goods, especially for bread, but also for gas and oil. so the consequences for turkey's already ailing economy could be quite severe. skyrocketing, inflation has already caused a loss of anger and despair, and now the war could actually add pressure to already existing problems. during the target president, richard tar about along is warping us in line here is out of a new member country at the same time. turgeon is economy are heavily dependent on its ties with russia. well, turkish president, edwin has developed close economic and political ties with both russia and ukraine in recent years. and yes, that has put him in a delicate position where we see him now trying to balance his commitments toward

the ukraine. a turkey thought. com, the trojans to the ukrainian government. are they also a ne, announced new trade deals with, on the other hand, it's ties to moscow. and now turkey and russia have a considerable trait. volume worth nearly $35000000000.00 us dollars last year. turkey depends on russian gas on russian tourists as well. russia has invested $20000000000.00 us dollars in a nuclear power plant here in turkey. so add on, can't afford to fall out with russia economically. and i think that to large extent, explains his political balancing act and drew a ruling from the shark of massive economic losses due to the current of ours condemned turkey was optimistic that its economy would bloom for its tourism sector this year. but now struggling under the russia ukraine conflict, how well no other country has been sending more tourists to turkey,

then russia, nearly 5000000 people last year. ukraine actually ranks 3rd with about 2000000 people after a germany. turkey heavily relies on foreign currency inflows, but now a turkish tourist, tourism associations and agencies are worried are afraid that people won't come ukrainians for obvious reasons, but they also fear that russia's president putin might announce another a travel band for russian tourists to turkey or that payments due to the swift sanctions against russia, international payments are, are difficult or nearly impossible. so the tourism industry really fears great losses. we're talking about several 1000000000 us dollars. there is a lot at stake for the turkish tourism sector. d. w. corresponded to johan in istanbul. thank you. you've been watching a special edition of dw business, russia,

and economy add war. the international response to russia's aggression has been swift and concerted. western powers are hoping, inflicting economic pain by a sanctions will push florida reporting to reverse who's course it's all from me and the business team here in berlin. thanks for watching. ah ah. with

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