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After the poison attack on Alexei Navalny, the Nord Stream 2 project faltered, at least a little. Obituaries would be premature despite a recent turnaround by Chancellor Merkel. Four questions and answers about the gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea.
Sedan. Alexej Navalny has woken up from an artificial coma. Berlin’s most famous patient “reacts when spoken to”. His team of doctors at the Charité Clinic cannot rule out the long-term consequences of the serious poisoning. The news of the improvement in the situation of the critic of the Kremlin broke into the debate on Monday about what sanctions Berlin and Brussels could impose in the Navalny case. And a taboo has fallen into this discussion.
So far, it has been the case: no matter how icy the weather is between Berlin and Moscow, Angela Merkel (CDU) will not question the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project. One is politics, the other is a private sector project – that was Chancellor’s creed two weeks ago. But now Merkel is moving away from this strategy. Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) linked Nord Stream 2 to the Navalny case over the weekend. And Maas’s position is also that of the Chancellor, as government spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Monday. And that is new. Even if the pipeline obituaries are very premature and the government spokesperson stressed that concrete sanctions are not yet a problem.
