„Putting sensitive gas infrastructure in Germany in the hands of Gazprom was not a smart policy,“ says Reinhard Bütikofer, foreign policy coordinator of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament, referring to skyrocketing energy prices and historically empty gas storage facilities. Germany and the EU want to position themselves better in the future. Timo Landenberger analyzes to what extent strategic gas reserves or minimum storage requirements can be a solution.