Russia entanglements: Scholz needs a liberation

During her trip to the Baltic States, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock described the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea pipeline as “fatal”. And complains that the Eastern European partners were not heard when the decision to build was made, and that Germany uncritically handed itself over to Russia. One would think that this interpretation is now undisputed in political Berlin.

But even in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania such a statement falls on deaf ears. There, SPD Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig had her state’s relations with Russia frozen. But: A Russia-related association continues to receive money from the state budget.