The Bundestag said they did not want to threaten the United States because of the gas pipeline SP-2

The German authorities are not going to threaten the United States because of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline (SP-2), but are ready to think about sanctions in the absence of another solution. This was announced on July 1 by the head of the Bundestag Committee on Economics and Energy, Klaus Ernst (Left faction), following a public hearing of the Bundestag Committee on Economics and Energy on the situation around the construction of SP-2. "We do not want to threaten anything, we want to show what we are capable of, RIA Novosti quotes Ernst, who thus commented on the words of Volker Traier, head of the Department for Foreign Economic Relations of the Union of German Industrial and Commercial Chambers (DIHK), calling on the EU authorities to put up more formidable weapons in the window in response to US actions. Ernst also noted that the fact that politicians and economists in this matter hold different positions is understandable, legitimate and correct. The economy must ensure that it does not destroy its ties with the United States, and we must monitor the protection of the sovereignty of the republic, the head of the committee specified and added that he understands the interests of industrialists, since we also do not want sanctions, we want to solve this differently, but if there is no other way, we need to think about it. Note, as the news agency reported, earlier German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that a commercial project was SP-2 for Germany and therefore she believes that it needs to be completed.