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Prime Minister Nehammer in Vienna: Plea for the pipeline
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Karl Nehammer has been the new Chancellor of Austria for around a week, and the head of government is now putting pressure on the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to go into operation soon: "I expect Nord Stream 2 to go into operation as planned," said Take the "world". As long as the EU countries also need gas and oil, it is important to secure the energy supply from as many sources as possible and to have appropriate pipelines.
“Of course, that also applies to Austria. Nord Stream 2 is an important project that gives the European Union security of supply when it comes to energy issues, ”said Nehammer. When asked by the US government to use the gas pipeline, which is supposed to bring Russian gas through the Baltic Sea to Germany and the EU, as leverage against Moscow in the Ukraine conflict, Nehammer said: »I do not believe in the commissioning of Nord Stream 2 with Russian behavior in Ukraine. That would only harm the European Union. "
On the other hand, the German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Sunday in the ZDF “heute journal” that the traffic light parties SPD, Greens and FDP had agreed in the coalition agreement that European energy law would apply to energy projects - “and that means that this pipeline, as things stand now this cannot be approved because it does not meet the requirements of European energy law and the security issues are still in the room anyway «.
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