Her comments come after POLITICO reported that Donald Trump\u2019s envoy, Steve Witkoff, advocates lifting sanctions on Russian energy infrastructure, including the Nord Stream 2 Russia-to-Germany gas pipelines, as part of potential peace negotiations. <\/p>\n
The move reflects a broader effort by Trump\u2019s team to reset relations with Moscow. Witkoff has held multiple rounds of talks with Russian officials, excluding Ukraine from the negotiation table. The discussions have focused on easing tensions and reopening economic ties while rushing a ceasefire deal between Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Beyond the Social Democrats, the proposal has raised concerns in Germany, where reliance on Russian gas has been significantly reduced following Moscow’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Germany\u2019s Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action dismissed the idea of reactivating the pipeline, regardless of what becomes of U.S. sanctions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Nord Stream 2 pipeline is not certified and has not been legally approved. As such, using the pipeline is not even under consideration,\u201d a spokesperson told POLITICO.<\/p>\n
Michael Gahler, foreign policy spokesperson for the European People\u2019s Party group in the European Parliament, warned against such a move by the White House. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are deeply concerned that the Trump administration appears willing to abandon international law, betray Ukraine, grant Russia impunity, and do business with Putin,\u201d he said. \u201cA new German government would also not allow Nord Stream to be reactivated. We will not make the same mistake twice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Her comments come after POLITICO reported that Donald Trump\u2019s envoy, Steve Witkoff, advocates lifting sanctions on Russian energy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[32,35,25799,2000,299,1945,5435,11070,1824,25800,809,15857,5442,332,2663,7070,49,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-47037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-energy","10":"tag-energy-infrastructure","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-friedrich-merz","14":"tag-gas","15":"tag-german-politics","16":"tag-germany","17":"tag-michael-gahler","18":"tag-negotiations","19":"tag-pipelines","20":"tag-renewable-energy","21":"tag-russia","22":"tag-sanctions","23":"tag-steve-witkoff","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47037","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=47037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}