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The construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is based on pressure from the United States; recently, three US senators even personally threatened German businessmen with the consequences. Prime Minister Schwesig has now responded.
About four weeks after a threatening letter from US senators to Mukran port employees emerged, the Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania responded, also with a letter.
In the letter received by the “Ostseezeitung”, Schwesig “strongly rejects” the threatened sanctions and opposes any influence on German energy policy. “It is a sovereign decision of the Federal Republic of Germany where and how it draws its energy,” he emphasizes.
Threats against shipyard employees
Three Republican senators from the United States had personally addressed board members, officials and shareholders of the port of Sassnitz Mukran. They threatened in a letter that Fährhafen Sassnitz GmbH employees would not enter the US when construction works in Mukran resumed, and then all properties in the US would be frozen. This letter is the first case. publicly known in which the threats of sanction from the United States are specifically directed at a German company and its employees.
The port of Sassnitz-Mukran is considered the most important transshipment point for the construction of the 1,200-kilometer pipeline. In the future, Russian natural gas will be delivered to Europe via Nord Stream 2. The United States has been fighting the project for a long time. They also produce large quantities of natural gas and want to supply Europe with liquefied gas through LNG terminals in the future. The threat of US sanctions alone meant that construction was closed shortly before the line was completed.
The toy of political interests
The construction of pipelines is also controversial within the EU. Previous transit countries like Poland, the Baltic states and Slovakia warn of a dependence on Russian natural gas. With the commissioning of Nord Stream 2, you will also have to expect lower transit revenues, as a large part of Russian gas currently flows through these countries.
More recently, the federal government itself brought the Nord Stream project into play as a means of sanctions policy. In connection with the poison attack on Russian opposition politician Alexej Navalny, Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas threatened not to complete the pipeline if Russia did not clarify Navalny’s case.
