{"id":377437,"date":"2025-08-27T11:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T11:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/377437\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T11:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T11:03:10","slug":"france-accuses-russia-of-pressuring-germanys-nord-stream-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/377437\/","title":{"rendered":"France accuses Russia of pressuring Germany\u2019s Nord Stream investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> A French representative at the U.N. Security Council on Aug. 26 accused Moscow of putting pressure on Germany\u2019s probe into the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions by repeatedly convening Council meetings. Paris argued the tactic was \u201cunacceptable\u201d and aimed at undermining Berlin\u2019s work. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"462\" data-end=\"823\">The U.K. and U.S. envoys echoed the criticism, saying the Council should not politicize the process or revisit an incident nearly three years old, while <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/explosion-hits-ryazan-moscow-oil-pipeline-in-russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a> and China insisted on a more thorough probe. Germany, Sweden, and Denmark launched investigations, though only Berlin\u2019s remains active after the other two closed theirs without identifying a culprit, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/france-says-russia-pressuring-germanys-nord-stream-investigation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">foreign<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/france-says-russia-pressuring-germanys-nord-stream-investigation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"825\" data-end=\"1128\">German authorities have linked Ukrainian suspects to the sabotage but stopped short of blaming Kyiv, which denies involvement. Chancellor Friedrich Merz has vowed Nord Stream 2 will not be restarted, while the EU has banned any transactions related to the pipelines under its latest sanctions package.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A French representative at the U.N. Security Council on Aug. 26 accused Moscow of putting pressure on Germany\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,1824,2301,55611,332],"class_list":{"0":"post-377437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-moscow","13":"tag-nord-stream","14":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115100398646617417","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}