Saxony’s Economics Minister Martin Dulig (SPD) has promised help for companies suffering from the sanctions against Russia. High energy prices make production more expensive, supply and value chains are interrupted, raw materials and preliminary products are not available, said Dulig on Wednesday in a government statement in the Saxon state parliament. “Some companies are hit particularly hard by these economic consequences. We won’t leave them out in the rain.”
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In addition to federal aid, the Free State primarily provides rescue and restructuring loans. “With the Consolidation Advice Center at the Saxon Development Bank, companies in economic difficulties have a central point of contact in the Free State.”
Dulig emphasized that the sixth package of sanctions proposed by the EU Commission on Wednesday will again have an impact on Saxony. However, the SPD politician called the sanctions necessary and correct. He strongly condemned Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. “The attempt to integrate Russia into a collective security architecture in a ‘common house of Europe’ has failed.” He was just as disappointed about that as Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presented plans for new economic sanctions against Russia on Wednesday morning. “We are now proposing an embargo on Russian oil. It is about a complete import ban on all Russian oil,” she said in the European Parliament. Russian crude oil shipments are to be phased out within six months and refined product imports phased out by the end of the year. (dpa)
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