Criticized for his closeness to the Kremlin, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schr\u00f6der, who is now the chairman of the board of directors of the Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, said in\u00a0an interview with\u00a0Stern after a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that Nord Stream 2 should be launched.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
KYIV. UkraineGate . 3. \u00a0August . 2022 | World News .\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Schroeder “recommended” the federal government to solve acute gas issues in Germany through the use of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. That is where he has a position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The simplest solution would be to put the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline into operation,” he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Asked about the federal government’s unequivocally ruling out its launch after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Schroeder said: “If you don’t want to use Nord Stream 2, you’re going to have consequences. And they’re going to be huge in Germany as well.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Schroeder made a number of other statements in interviews with Stern and RTL\/ntv.\u00a0In particular, with regard to NATO membership, Schroeder\u00a0said\u00a0that it was a “wise decision” by then-Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in 2008 to prevent Ukraine from joining.\u00a0And that the Kremlin “wants a negotiated solution.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Addition<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n German ex-chancellor Schroeder\u00a0visited\u00a0the Russian Federation at the end of July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source<\/strong>:\u00a0Ukrgate<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Criticized for his closeness to the Kremlin, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schr\u00f6der, who is now the chairman of the board of directors of the Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, said in\u00a0an interview with\u00a0Stern after a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that Nord Stream 2 should be launched.\u00a0 KYIV. UkraineGate . 3. \u00a0August . […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":43818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10474],"tags":[813,996,2399,1000,1024,1064,1854],"class_list":["post-43817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-news","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-ukraine-news","tag-ukrgate","tag-war","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43825,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43817\/revisions\/43825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}