German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock attacks Olaf Scholz over Ukraine aid

We can therefore hope that good cooperation between Europe and the US will continue to be successful in the future, including on the issue of support for Ukraine,

Scholz said

Germany as a whole isn’t currently seen as a driving force for peace policy in Europe, and honestly that pains me,

Baerbock, a leading Greens politician, told POLITICO’s Berlin Playbook Podcast

Just as Nord Stream 2 was never purely an economic project — despite what the CDU and SPD long wanted to believe — it’s also no coincidence that undersea data cables in the Baltic Sea keep getting damaged,

Baerbock said, referring to recent suspected cases of Russian sabotage

In crisis years, that could even approach three percent,

she added

That trust must not be damaged again by hesitation, which could make other countries worry that Germany won’t stand by them,

she said

I just returned from a conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,

she said

We’ll cooperate wherever possible because America remains one of our closest partners and has been a friend for decades,

she said

I would still be in favor if everyone agreed to a resolution to finance this through loans,

Scholz said on German television late Wednesday