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Germany reportedly offered to spend upwards of $1 billion on US liquefied natural gas and infrastructure for the same, if it would lift sanctions off Nord Stream 2.
This was revealed in recent days, as a letter was leaked allegedly showing the offer.
The leak prompted lawmakers to summon Finance Minister Olaf Scholz from a meeting about coronavirus measures to attend a debate in parliament about Russia.
Scholz allegedly wrote a letter to then-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in August saying Germany was “willing to considerably increase its financial support for LNG infrastructure and import capacities by up to 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion)” if, in return, the United States “allows the unhindered construction and operation of Nord Stream 2.”
The letter was published by the NGO Environmental Action Germany, it can be found on their website.
German government spokeswoman Ulrike Demmer declined to comment on the letter, saying any correspondence on the issue was confidential. She said Berlin is “in contact with the U.S. government” about sanctions and the threat of sanctions. Those measures have delayed completion of the pipeline.
Demmer added that the government had “acted in a coordinated way” over the issue in the past — suggesting that other ministries and German Chancellor Angela Merkel had been involved in the discussion.
Scholz didn’t speak, but Foreign Minister Heiko Maas defended proceeding with a new undersea gas pipeline from Russia that faces strong opposition from the U.S. and eastern Europe, arguing that scrapping it could have adverse geopolitical consequences.
Maas said that sanctions against Russia “must hit the right people and not employees of nearly 150 European companies, most of them from Germany.” Nord Stream 2 is owned by Russian state company Gazprom, with investment from several European companies.
Separately, comments by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier drawing a link between Nord Stream 2 and Germany’s debt over World War II have raised hackles in Ukraine and Poland.
Steinmeier had told daily Rheinische Post that Germany needed to keep in mind its eventful history with Russia. “There were phases of fruitful partnership, but even more times of terrible bloodshed,” he said, citing the 20 million people who died in the Soviet Union during World War II.
“That doesn’t justify mistakes in Russian policy today, but we mustn’t lose sight of the bigger picture,” said Steinmeier.
Ukraine and Poland complained about the statements.
Ukraine’s ambassador to Berlin, Andrij Melnyk, said that Steinmeier’s comments in an interview last week “hit us Ukrainians deep in the heart.”
Melnyk accused the German president, whose role is largely ceremonial, of ignoring the fact that millions of the Nazis’ Soviet victims were Ukrainians.
Polish deputy foreign minister Pawel Jablonski argued that “Nord Stream 2 is the worst form of compensation.”
He said that completion of the pipeline would effectively put Ukraine at Russia’s mercy and the European Union “should never agree to continuing this project, especially in the wake of what is happening to Mr. Navalny.”
Germany appears reluctant to connect Navalny and other geopolitical issues with something that it sees as pure business.
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This news is from September 2020 https://www.reuters.com/article/germany-usa-russia-idUKL8N2GD53Z
For Germany NS2 is much more than a question of business, it is fundamental for its future survival as an industrial nation, with the fake green you will not go anywhere and the German industrialists know it best, NS2 in Germany is TINA.
Fake greens,nailed it:
Maybe Germany should get better allies. Not one that undermines their economy if they dare trade with someone they don;t like.
It seems as though if this were being adjudicated between 2 companies in the US, the one representing the US would be prosecutable under RICO laws. The ‘payoff’ would be seen as a bribe and prosecutable as such. But of course in international dealings, the US can do as it pleases, as they are still holding the monetary hole card. Biden will have more power than Trump in this regard, being more in league with those pulling strings. Germany must break this strangle hold now or they will be forever under their thumb. They are going to have to decide if they are Germans or US vassals. This is a make or break for European sovereignty. Had they honored the JCPOA when they had the chance, they might have grown a backbone by now.
” This is a make or break for European sovereignty ”
Germany doesn’t represent Europe or its sovereignty. Sovereign nations don’t give away submarines for free.
poor Germans, this happens when you are an US dog
A slave trying to bribe its master. Lets all laugh together.
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it is simple, if Germany caves in and stops the pipeline, it would be the beginning of the end for them. Since they are going green, they have no choice but to bring in a steady source of lower cost gas with predictable steady supply to stabilize overpriced lng and other sources in order for their own economy to be successful, plus this allows them to not be held hostage to eastern euro countries like ukraine which are a parasite to them.