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News Digest Item
27 Sep 2016

ā€œGreen politician demands halt to construction of Nord Stream pipelineā€

Spiegel Online

Robert Habeck, one of the Green Party’s primary candidates for the upcoming federal elections, has demanded a halt to construction of the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project in light of Russian airstrikes in Syria, reports Spiegel Online. ā€œVladimir Putin bombs civilians in Syria […]. We make that possible through our gas and oil purchases in Russia. […] This close intertwining is extreme and we cannot want that,ā€ Habeck told Spiegel Online.

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For more on the Energiewende’s implications for international security, see the Āé¶¹ĪŽĀė°ę dossier Āé¶¹ĪŽĀė°ę transition shapes foreign policy in Germany and beyond.

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