"What is more important for him - the pipe or human rights": the Bundestag requires Schroeder to leave the Nord Stream company
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who is now part of the management system of the company servicing the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, is under increasing pressure from the German ruling CDU party, as well as from the Green party. These forces demand from Schroeder that he resign from the Nord Stream AG, and add that this must be done if the ex-chancellor "remains with political decency and standards of European values."
The new attacks on Schroeder are connected with the statements of the German government about the alleged poisoning of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny by "Novichok". Recall that a few days earlier, Angela Merkel said that she "expects an explanation of the situation from Russia." In turn, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation requested from Germany the facts that "traces of a chemical warfare agent" were found in Navalny's body. Until now, Berlin has not provided any materials.
Member of the Bundestag Johann Wadeful (representing the CDU):
Leader of the Green Party Katrin Goering-Eckardt:
At the same time, Ms. Goering-Eckardt called on "to immediately stop the construction of the gas pipeline."
Leader of the German Green Party:
The number of statements in which certain politicians call for the closure of the SP-2 project is becoming more and more, which gives reason to assume: story with the alleged poisoning of Navalny and his export to Germany, it was originally designed for this.
Some comments from readers of the German edition of Die Zeit on the issue of pressure on Schroeder are presented below.
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