Overview

• After a cabinet meeting in Brussels, Minister-President Dietmar Woidke urged the European Commission to swiftly grant state-aid approval for the upgrade.
• The federal government plans to invest €400 million to boost capacity on the Schwedt–Rostock pipeline, which still requires Commission clearance.
• Germany’s economy ministry says initial optimizations on the route have already been completed.
• The PCK refinery supplies Berlin and much of northeastern Germany with petrol, heating oil and kerosene.
• PCK remains under federal trusteeship even though Rosneft’s German subsidiaries own 54 percent, and the refinery now draws crude from alternatives such as Kazakhstan.