FDP parliamentary group calls for dismantling of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline

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Nord Stream gas receiving station: »Diplomatically isolated«

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The FDP parliamentary group wants to finally close the chapter on the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea pipeline.

"As Free Democrats, we demand the dismantling of Nord Stream 2 and the fastest possible development of a concept for legal, technical and environmental protection," says a position paper adopted at the autumn meeting in Bremen.

The FDP parliamentary group wants to end all purchases of raw materials and energy from Russia and Belarus as quickly as possible, insofar as this is permitted by their own economic capacity to act.

“From the start, the Nord Stream pipelines were a Kremlin geopolitical project aimed at isolating Ukraine.

That is why the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in particular has led to considerable upset and isolates Germany diplomatically,” says the decision, in which Ukraine is also assured further support.

Russia's aggression must continue to be answered consistently with economic sanctions.

Sanctions worked, the first effects are already visible.

"We are calling for the sanctions against members of the Russian leadership to be expanded and we are in favor of expelling family members of people on the sanctions list and withdrawing visas," said the FDP parliamentary group.

»If individual countries, including EU accession candidates, evade sanctions or even supply weapons to Russia, this cannot go unchallenged and without consequences.

If EU accession candidates circumvent the sanctions, the pre-accession aid must be canceled.«

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