Olaf Scholz still refuses to give the US a promise that Nord Stream 2 will not go into operation in the event of a Russian attack on Ukraine.
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Berlin, Brussels, Washington The announcement by the American President was clear and uncompromising: If Russia sends troops or tanks across the Ukrainian border, “there will be no more Nord Stream 2,” said Joe Biden on Monday after his meeting with Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the White House. “We will put an end to this.”
When asked how Biden wanted to do this in a German-Russian project, the US President replied succinctly: “I promise you that we will do it.”
Scholz stood by, but did not address the pipeline directly. Instead, he invoked transatlantic unity in dealing with Moscow. “There will be no measures in which we act differently,” assured Scholz. That’s more than the chancellor, who has been criticized for weeks for his foreign policy maneuvering, has said on the sanctions issue so far.
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