As Russia’s war in Ukraine enters its fourth week, Germany has become the focal point of a debate about whether Europe should continue financing Russian military operations through the purchase of energy from Moscow.
By James Carstensen | February 10, 2021 | 9:30pm EST
A sign near the Nord Stream 2 pipeline landfall facility in northern Germany. (Photo by Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images)
Berlin (CNSNews.com) – Germany continues to defend of its controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project with Russia amid allegations that its finance ministry offered a deal last year effectively to pay the U.S. to waive sanctions.
Meanwhile an attempt by Germany’s president to justify the project as a form of belated war repatriations to Russia went down badly in Ukraine, a country that stands to be significantly disadvantaged by the pipeline project which will double gas supplies from Russia to western Europe.