In Germany, they wanted to impose sanctions against the United States due to their actions regarding the gas pipeline “Northern Flow-2”. With such a proposal, a deputy of the Alternative Party for Germany and a member of the Bundestag Committee on Energy Shteaffen Kotra, his words lead RIA Novosti.
Kotra complained that the German government opposes the actions of the United States only in words, because of which the project is still under the threat of a breakdown. According to politics, Berlin should think about the response measures, for example, to increase duties for liquefied gas supplies from the USA.
On the US abandonment of restrictions against the company-operator of the North Stream-2 gas pipeline reported on the eve of May 19. In the text of the report, which quoted Bloomberg, it was said that the gas pipeline was the activity on which the sanctions could be imposed, but the US President Joe Bayiden decided not to do this.
Later in the US State Department confirmed the refusal of sanctions against the pipeline. The American Secretary of State Anthony Blinken stressed that in the national interests of the United States to suspend the fulfillment of sanctions against Nord Stream 2 AG, his heads of Mattias Varniga and corporate workers Nord Stream 2 AG. At the same time, in the statement of the head of the foreign policy department, it was emphasized that the United States will continue to “unshakimy” oppose the construction of the North Stream-2 gas pipeline.