Is Germany using double standards when it comes to the energy embargo?

Berlin You usually meet twice in your life – at least. This old saying comes to mind after Germany, in the midst of a dispute over an energy embargo against Russia, encounters the old ghosts from the Greek sovereign debt crisis again. And it is an encounter that should shock many in political Berlin.

First, Paul Krugman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, accused the German business and political elite of having made themselves Putin’s most important accomplices with their blue-eyed energy policies. The American economist recalled the “contrast between Germany’s current reluctance to make “moderate sacrifices” for Ukraine and “the immense sacrifices Germany demanded of other countries during the debt crisis a decade ago.”