Germany's parliament has passed changes to the Energy Security Act that would allow the sale of Russian energy group Rosneft's stake in the Schwedt refinery without prior nationalisation.
The condition requiring nationalisation of assets put under government trusteeship has been removed, allowing transfers that serve to preserve the value of the company, such as in the case of the refinery, to be legally possible. Rosneft, which still holds a 54.17% stake in the refinery, could not be reached for comment. Last year, Germany took control of the Schwedt refinery following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Photo by Times, Wikimedia commons.