{"id":371723,"date":"2020-09-04T08:42:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T03:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=371723"},"modified":"2020-09-04T09:27:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T03:57:41","slug":"only-language-putin-understands-germany-asked-to-drop-pipeline-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/only-language-putin-understands-germany-asked-to-drop-pipeline-project\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Only language Putin understands&#8217;: Germany asked to drop pipeline project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel faced growing pressure on Thursday to reconsider the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which will take gas from Russia to Germany, after she said Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Soviet-style nerve agent. <\/p>\n<p>Merkel said on Wednesday that Navalny, who is being treated in a Berlin hospital, was the victim of a murder attempt using the nerve agent Novichok, and demanded an explanation by Russia. &#8220;We must pursue hard politics, we must respond with the only language (Russian President Vladimir) Putin understands &#8211; that is gas sales,&#8221; Norbert Roettgen, head of Germany&#8217;s parliamentary foreign affairs committee, told German radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel faced growing pressure on Thursday to reconsider the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which will take gas from Russia to Germany, after she said Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Soviet-style nerve agent. Merkel said on Wednesday that Navalny, who is being treated in a Berlin hospital, was the victim of a murder attempt using the nerve agent Novichok, and demanded an explanation by Russia. &#8220;We must pursue hard politics, we must respond with the only language (Russian President Vladimir) Putin understands &#8211; that is gas sales,&#8221; Norbert Roettgen, head of Germany&#8217;s parliamentary foreign affairs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}