Overview
- The former chancellor disclosed the project at an event hosted by Table. Briefings and the Museumsverein des Deutschen Historischen Museums in Berlin.
- He said, "I have already started," and noted he is in talks with various people, while publishers have approached him about compiling his memories.
- Scholz did not clarify whether the book will be a memoir or another form, and he provided no publication timeline.
- Marking the fourth anniversary of the invasion, he argued Vladimir Putin wanted the Ukraine war and had likely planned it two years earlier, saying no talks could have dissuaded him.
- He reflected that Germany underestimated its reliance on Russian energy, described much of it as corporate-driven, and recalled advocating LNG terminals as Hamburg’s mayor.