Mirz supports the Nodd Stream to prevent us and Russia is the gas link

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German Chancellor Friedrich Mirz “actively” supports a proposed ban for the European Union on the northern current pipelines that connect Russia to Germany in an attempt to stop any American and Russian efforts to revitalize gas ties.

The Mirz government said earlier this week that it had supported the embargo as part of the next round of sanctions against Russia because of its war in Ukraine. According to three of the officials familiar with this issue, the advisor sought to suppress any local debates on the advantages of possible reactivation.

Reports in financial times In March about the Russian businessmen and the United States associated with Kremlin who seek to restart the private owned pipelines, Mirz prompted the start of discussions with Berlin and Brussels officials on how to prevent this, one person said.

They said that adding the Nord stream to the European Union’s sanctions list “is likely to remove a political problem for him.”

Another official said the punitive measures are also a way to “clarify” the fate of the pipeline, instead of facing the potential pressure of the United States and Russian on its own.

Although there is no control of the state on any of the four pipelines currently disabled after the explosions were damaged by three of them in 2022, Berlin will have to grant a certificate for any stimulation of the gas relationship.

The European Union restrictions will target Nord Stream 2 AGPeople familiar with the plans have told the entity that is based in Switzerland that has pipelines, and any other Russian or other-other companies-necessary to restore and operate.

European Commission President Nord Stream reported last week as part of the “new package of sanctions” that her team was working on. I made those notes that I consulted for the first time MirzHe presented his support for this step, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

People added that the committee is scheduled to start official discussions with European Union governments this week. It can only be adopted with support from all capitals unanimously.

He was one of the girls of ideas for former adviser Gerahard Schroeder, who had close relations with Putin and was later appointed by Kremlin -backed Gazprom, one day was a symbol of deep economic relations between Russia and Germany.

Even before Moscow launched a large scale for Ukraine in 2022, the link was a dispute between Berlin and Washington, with the first Trump administration Adviser Angela Merkel urged then To reduce energy dependence in her country on Russia.

Matthias Warnig, a former spy in Stasi and his close friend to Putin, discussed the restarting of the pipeline with the support of American investors, said people who have knowledge of the conversations previously said. They said that Warning was seeking to benefit from the desire of US President Donald Trump to economic rapprochement with Moscow.

A government spokesman said: “It is true that the consultant supports the penalty activity against Nord Stream 2,” adding: “One of the goals of our sanctions is to cut Russia from revenues that can be used to finance the war of its aggression against Ukraine in a violation of international law. This includes revenues from exporting fossil fuel.”

Trump’s efforts to negotiate a settlement with Russia on Ukraine re -discussed in Germany about Nord Stream and Russia Gas, which formed more than half of German gas imports before 2022.

A study conducted by Forsa found that 49 per cent of the residents of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the German country where Lubmin, the pipeline station, were resuming Russian gas supplies.

The extreme right -wing alternative to Germany, which received more than 20 percent of the country’s votes in the February elections, called on the online pipelines as the largest economy in the euro area with high energy and stagnation prices.

Some business leaders and politicians from the Christian Democratic Union in the center of Mirz (CDU) and the coalition partners in the left, the socialist Democrats. The Green opposition blamed the remains of “Moscow’s connection” inside the main parties in Germany.

In March, Michael Crithemer, The Prime Minister of CDU in the eastern state of Saxony said that maintaining the punitive measures against Moscow was “completely old and is not appropriate for what the Americans are doing now.”

In response to reports by FT and others about Nord Stream, a greeting MP Cdu Thomas Bareiß in LinkedIn Publishing “How are our American friends?”

Demar Widk, Prime Minister of the Democratic Democratic Party in the eastern German state of Brandenburg, called for the normalization of Germany’s trade relations with Russia after the peace agreement.