The Nord Stream 2 pipeline lies unused at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Now the FDP is proposing in the Bundestag: get out again with the line from the sea.
The FDP parliamentary group wants to finally close the chapter on the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea pipeline. “As Free Democrats, we demand the dismantling of Nord Stream 2 and the fastest possible development of a concept for legal, technical and environmental protection,” says a position paper adopted at the autumn meeting in Bremen, which is available to the German Press Agency.
The FDP parliamentary group wants to end all purchases of raw materials and energy from Russia and Belarus as quickly as possible, insofar as this is permitted by their own economic capacity to act. “Right from the start, the Nord Stream pipelines were a geopolitical project of the Kremlin, the aim of which was to isolate Ukraine. That is why the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in particular led to considerable resentment and diplomatically isolated Germany,” says the decision in which further support is also promised to Ukraine.
SPD faction leader Rolf Mützenich showed no interest in the proposal of the coalition partner FDP. “I really have other concerns at the moment than thinking about what we might dismantle again in this context,” he said after a closed meeting of the parliamentary group in Dresden.
Criticism came from the AfD parliamentary group: “Germany is still dependent on Russian gas. This will not change in the foreseeable future,” said economic policy spokesman Leif-Erik Holm. The opening of the pipeline should no longer be taboo. “If we don’t get enough gas through Nord Stream 1, we’ll just have to get it through Nord Stream 2.”
In the FDP position paper, the liberals demand that Russia’s aggression must continue to be answered with economic sanctions. Sanctions worked, the first effects are already visible. “We are calling for the sanctions against members of the Russian leadership to be expanded and we are in favor of expelling family members of people on the sanctions list and withdrawing visas,” said the FDP parliamentary group. “If individual countries, including EU accession candidates, circumvent sanctions or even supply weapons to Russia, this cannot remain without consequences and opposition. If EU accession candidates circumvent the sanctions, the pre-accession aid must be canceled.”
Source: Stern
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