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my guest is state secretary for economic cooperation niels annen. germany got a new strategic vision? niels annen, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. pleasure. well, it's great to be here. let's start with the war in ukraine. i think there's no doubt that putin's invasion of ukraine shocked germany. would it be fair to say it has also destabilised germany? no, i don't think so. but it certainly shocked germany because a lot of our economic model was based on the assumption that we would continue using cheap russian natural gas. and it was also based in a kind of historic, should i say, historic experience that although russia was a competitor and an enemy in the cold war, it was always also, in economic terms, a quite reliable partner. and i think that was somehow, you know, seen as a constant policy. and we did not really realise that it's not the soviet union any more. it's a brutal dictator and an unpredictable dictator. but what you've just described is a very big deal. you've just told me that one of your key economic planks was taken away, that r

my guest is state secretary for economic cooperation niels annen.