For Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the Nord Stream gas pipeline project remains a taboo word, which the person concerned took care not to pronounce on Monday evening in Washington, next to Joe Biden.
Forty-eight hours after the visit of the new head of the German government to the White House, this linguistic omission, which has nothing to do with a failed act, continues to monopolize political debates across the Rhine.
It would be the symptom of a hesitant German diplomacy, wedged between its American ally and its Russian neighbor, seeking its way in the middle of a crisis which takes it by surprise.
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In the event of Russian aggression against Ukraine,
“there will be no more Nord Stream.
We will put an end to it”,
had launched the American president in an authoritative tone, speaking of a site which in no way involves the United States, and of a contract concluded between only Russian and German companies.
In the process, the Chancellor could have explicitly given his opinion on a project which concerns his country in the first place: he did not…
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