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Germany won’t need additional gas flows this season, giving Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin another reason to bide their time on the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline. After two warm winters and the coronavirus pandemic, demand for the fuel used for heat and power generation is sagging …

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s top diplomat warned Russia that Germany’s support for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline was at risk if the Kremlin doesn’t assist in clarifying the poisoning of dissident Alexey Navalny. It was the first time a cabinet minister in Merkel’s government explicitly linked the fate of the …

Chancellor Angela Merkel is under pressure from within her own party to drop support for a controversial gas pipeline with Russia after links point to the Kremlin in the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny. Norbert Roettgen, head of the German parliament’s foreign affairs committee and a candidate to …

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday that proposed US sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia were law-defying and would be dealt with. “We think that extraterritorial sanctions, like the ones imposed by the US, do not match our understanding of what is legal. This concerns …

Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar blocked oil exports at ports under his control. slashing output by more than half and posing a potential setback for an international conference on Sunday that aims to broker an end to a civil war in the OPEC nation.

In reaction to a recent joint statement by Germany. France. UK urging Iran to stay in the nuclear deal. a board member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the Iranian Parliament.

The leaders also reaffirmed their opposition to the US decision to pull out of the nuclear deal.

Germany. France. UK – have urged Iran not to walk away from the agreement that has been practically rendered ineffective after the US’ pullout in 2018.

Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg lashed out at the US over its push for sanctions to be slapped on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project.

A major Russian gas pipeline to Europe would be delayed due to US sanctions on the project. a slight setback to a German-Russian venture that has emerged as a major flashpoint in both countries’ relations with Washington.