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The German government has offered the Donald Trump administration financial support of up to one billion euros ($ 1.21 billion) in a bid to prevent Washington from sanctioning the controversial NordStream 2 project, according to a document released Tuesday by a nonprofit organization. profit. quoted by dpa.
German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz reportedly offered these funds for the import of US liquefied natural gas in a personal letter to his then counterpart, Treasury Secretary (Finance Minister) Steve Mnuchin.
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The letter is dated August 7, 2020, and the offer is included in an attached “unofficial document,” writes agerpres.ro.
Sascha Mueller-Kraenner, CEO of the Ecological Action Germany (DUH) organization, which published the document, called it “scandalous” and evoked “a dirty business to the detriment of third parties.”
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According to the document, the German government has offered to invest in the development of LNG terminals in Wilhelmshaven and Brunsbuettel, on the German North Sea coast. Instead, the United States was required to allow “the unimpeded construction and operation of NordStream 2,” which would mean gas from Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea.
The Berlin Finance Ministry has yet to comment on the matter, but a spokesman said a statement was in preparation.
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Nord Stream 2 is nearing completion, despite US sanctions and growing calls for Germany to drop the project.
The United States and several European countries fear that Europe’s energy dependence on Russia will increase, and criticism has intensified in light of the Kremlin’s treatment of Aleksei Navalny and other political opponents.
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