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Friedrich Merz, Angela Merkel’s potential successor as Chancellor, asked to freeze the construction of Nord Stream 2 due to the situation with Alexei Navalny, writes the newspaper Bild.
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Merz said it had previously supported the pipeline project. However, after what happened with the Russian blogger, he said that Europe “should react.”
“I suggest immediately introduced a two-year freeze on construction, i.e. moratorium“said the politician.
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The European delegation protested to the US State Department.
In an article on the FAC, Merz said that within a two-year moratorium, Europe should reduce its dependence on Russian gas.
On August 20, Navalny’s plane landed urgently in Omsk, from where the blogger was taken to hospital. On August 21, doctors announced that the main diagnosis was metabolic disorders.
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The regulator requested documents from the Russian company, but did not provide them.
Navalny is currently in a coma, was transported to Germany. The German government said that he had been poisoned with substances from the Novice group.
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