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The head of Germany鈥檚 parliamentary foreign affairs committee, Norbert R枚ttgen of Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU party, has urged the government to 鈥渞econsider鈥� the controversial natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 to connect Germany with Russia via the Baltic Sea. In a guest article for the Guardian, R枚ttgen, a long-time critic of the project that is also rejected by many EU states, says the pipeline 鈥渋s hardly a purely commercial project鈥� and comes with strong geopolitical implications that could no longer be ignored as tensions between Russia and the Ukraine have flared up again.

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