PUNISHMENT FOR THE OWNER

PUNISHMENT FOR THE OWNER Increasing pressure on Angela Merkel, will Germany hit Putin where it hurts the most? It should be noted that even within the CDU / CSU, Merkel has not been alone in defending the Baltic gas pipeline so far. Writes: Jutarnji.hrPosted: September 4, 2020 3:14 pm 8639785 Maja Hitij Facebook Twitter Messenger E-mail After German doctors unequivocally confirmed that Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny had been poisoned with military poison from a novice group, and that the Kremlin was most likely behind the attack, Norbert Walter-Borjans , president of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) , began . "a tender for the idea of ​​which sanctions to impose on Russia" as a punishment for the attack on Navalny, writes Deutsche Welle . The Nord Stream 2 project, which is largely backed by the Russian state-owned company Gazprom and which should deliver natural gas to the EU market from a port near St. Petersburg via the Baltic to a port in the far northeast of Germany from next year, is self-evident. . Norbert Röttgen , a politician of the ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU), chairman of the Bundestag's Foreign Policy Committee and one of the possible candidates for Angela Merkel's successor, was the first to mention the issue of stopping the Nord Stream 2 construction project. at the head of the CDU. "If we complete the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project now, it will not only be the maximum confirmation and support for Vladimir Putin to continue with this policy, but also a reward," said Röttgen, who is in the middle of some kind of election campaign. watch his determination. His demands were joined by part of the parliamentary opposition. The president of the Liberal Democratic Party (FDP), Christian Lindner , after learning that Alexei Navalny was attacked, listed North Stream 2 as unsustainable. "The regime that organizes poisoning killings should not be a partner for big projects, and that includes gas pipeline projects." Merkel defended the pipeline last week But the situation is not so simple. Angela Merkel herself has insisted on this project so far. Some say that the place where the pipeline enters Germany lies in its constituency, in the part of the country where every job is welcome. Merkel has so far successfully defended this project from attacks from the White House. Since Donald Trump came to power, Washington has been putting enormous pressure on all parties involved in Nord Stream 2 to sabotage the project, which would ultimately mean more American gas for the EU market. As early as last Friday, when it was already known what was happening to Navalny, who was already on his way to Berlin, Merkel defended Nord Stream 2 and refused to link it to the case of the opposition politician, Deutsche Welle writes .