{"id":459117,"date":"2021-12-29T11:10:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T05:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=459117"},"modified":"2021-12-29T12:16:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T06:46:18","slug":"germany-wants-its-russian-pipeline-german-allies-arent-sure-its-a-good-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/germany-wants-its-russian-pipeline-german-allies-arent-sure-its-a-good-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany wants its Russian pipeline, German allies aren\u2019t sure it\u2019s a good idea."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany\u2019s new chancellor, Olaf Scholz, did not have to wait long after taking office to be asked about Nord Stream 2. An undersea Russia-to-Germany gas pipeline, the project has inflamed anger in Washington and European capitals at a time when tensions with Moscow are running high.<\/p>\n<p>Scholz\u2019s coalition government includes the Green Party, whose members are sharp critics of Nord Stream 2. He surprised many by taking the same stance as his immediate predecessor, Angela Merkel, who championed the pipeline as a business venture essential for the success of Germany\u2019s industrial base. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNord Stream 2 is a private-sector project,\u201d the new German chancellor told reporters. The ultimate decision over approval of the pipeline, he said, will be made by \u201can agency in Germany, completely nonpolitically.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany\u2019s new chancellor, Olaf Scholz, did not have to wait long after taking office to be asked about Nord Stream 2. An undersea Russia-to-Germany gas pipeline, the project has inflamed anger in Washington and European capitals at a time when tensions with Moscow are running high. Scholz\u2019s coalition government includes the Green Party, whose members are sharp critics of Nord Stream 2. He surprised many by taking the same stance as his immediate predecessor, Angela Merkel, who championed the pipeline as a business venture essential for the success of Germany\u2019s industrial base. \u201cNord Stream 2 is a private-sector project,\u201d the [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459117","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=459117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}