{"id":5673,"date":"2021-07-23T15:54:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T15:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5673"},"modified":"2021-07-23T15:54:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T15:54:26","slug":"us-and-germany-have-nord-stream-2-deal-but-lack-authority-to-implement-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5673","title":{"rendered":"US and Germany have Nord Stream 2 deal, but lack authority to implement it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“A day after the U.S. and Germany announced a deal<\/a> allowing the completion of the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline<\/a>, top officials conceded that neither the White House nor the Chancellery have the authority to implement some of its most crucial components.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a huge outcry<\/a> went up from opponents of the Russia-led pipeline project, Chancellor Angela Merkel acknowledged that her agreement with President Joe Biden hardly settled their political disagreements, and that much remained uncertain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe agreement with the U.S. government does not cement the differences, but it does not overcome all differences either,\u201d Merkel said at a news conference. \u201cThe differences remain.\u201d Of the deal, she added: \u201cIt is an attempt between the U.S. government and us to set certain conditions that also have to be implemented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am glad that we have succeeded so far,\u201d Merkel continued. \u201cAnd we also have a lot of tasks ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those tasks<\/a> are hardly small and include overcoming fierce opposition<\/a> from some members of the United States Congress, persuading some extremely dubious <\/a>EU countries to get on board, and convincing Russia to liberalize<\/a> its energy sector, divest<\/a> itself of the \u20ac9.5 billion pipeline, and pay Ukraine some additional \u20ac20 billion through 2034 to make up for the loss of gas transit fees \u2014 which the new pipeline would effectively render unnecessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While some influential Germans \u2014 notably former chancellor and current Nord Stream 2 chairman of the board Gerhard Schr\u00f6der \u2014 have been instrumental in securing the pipeline\u2019s completion, Berlin may have little to no influence over Moscow once construction is done and gas is flowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat on the foreign relations committee who co-authored U.S. sanctions legislation targeting the pipeline, said she was \u201cskeptical\u201d of the deal given that \u201cthe key player at the table \u2014 Russia \u2014 refuses to play by the rules.\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/us-and-germany-have-nord-stream-2-pipeline-deal-but-lack-authority-to-implement-it\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“A day after the U.S. and Germany announced a deal allowing the completion of the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, top officials conceded that neither the White House nor the Chancellery have the authority to implement some of its most crucial components.<\/p>\n

As a huge outcry went up from opponents of the Russia-led pipeline project, Chancellor Angela Merkel acknowledged that her agreement with President Joe Biden hardly settled their political disagreements, and that much remained uncertain.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe agreement with the U.S. government does not cement the differences, but it does not overcome all differences either,\u201d Merkel said at a news conference. \u201cThe differences remain.\u201d Of the deal, she added: \u201cIt is an attempt between the U.S. government and us to set certain conditions that also have to be implemented.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am glad that we have succeeded so far,\u201d Merkel continued. \u201cAnd we also have a lot of tasks ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those tasks are hardly small and include overcoming fierce opposition from some members of the United States Congress, persuading some extremely dubious EU countries to get on board, and convincing Russia to liberalize its energy sector, divest itself of the \u20ac9.5 billion pipeline, and pay Ukraine some additional \u20ac20 billion through 2034 to make up for the loss of gas transit fees \u2014 which the new pipeline would effectively render unnecessary.<\/p>\n

While some influential Germans \u2014 notably former chancellor and current Nord Stream 2 chairman of the board Gerhard Schr\u00f6der \u2014 have been instrumental in securing the pipeline\u2019s completion, Berlin may have little to no influence over Moscow once construction is done and gas is flowing.<\/p>\n

U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat on the foreign relations committee who co-authored U.S. sanctions legislation targeting the pipeline, said she was \u201cskeptical\u201d of the deal given that \u201cthe key player at the table \u2014 Russia \u2014 refuses to play by the rules.\u201d”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[923,272,355,1218,727,314,1332,315,311,619],"class_list":["post-5673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-european-union","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-gas","tag-germany","tag-international-relations","tag-pipeline","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5674,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions\/5674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}