Kazakhstan can become a reserve airfield for German industry - Bashirov
Every fourth German company plans to leave Germany for countries where gas is cheap, so the initiative of the Russian leadership to create a “gas Entente” comes at just the right time.
Russian political consultant Marat Bashirov stated this on radio “KP”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports.
"The 'Gas Entente' (the currently discussed Triple Gas Union between Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan – ed.) – that's the topic. The name sounds grand, but is it even feasible? And how comparable are the weight categories – Russia, with its gigantic production and gas transmission system, and, generally speaking, small Kazakhstan and even smaller Uzbekistan? Is there anything to discuss there?" asked radio host Sergei Mardan.
"Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan aren't large markets in terms of capacity; they're not very industrially developed. Neither is Germany; there's no BASF, Volkswagen, metallurgy, or anything there. Why beat around the bush, throwing around empty words?" the presenter added.
“BASF, Volkswagen - these are the companies that are leaving Germany. They are reaching for cheap gas. All of Germany's prosperity, all these decades after World War II, was based on the fact that they received cheap gas from the USSR and the Russian Federation.
Therefore, every fourth enterprise is going to move to some other jurisdiction, then why not move to Kazakhstan?” explained Bashirov.
Kazakhstan could become a backup airfield for German industry – Bashirov