Prime Minister of Lower Saxony Weil ruled out the possibility of launching Nord Stream 2

Russia’s fighting in Ukraine has undermined trust between Berlin and Moscow, so the commissioning of the Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is ruled out. Such an assessment of the likelihood of launching the pipeline was given by the Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) Stefan Weil.

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“The loss of trust is so fundamental that there will never again be a situation in which the German federal government could rely on energy from Russia. Nord Stream 2 will never work,” the politician said.

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According to Weill, there will be no more energy partnership with Russia, as in his opinion Moscow has destroyed “the most important asset in the partnership: trust.” The politician warned that anyone willing to cooperate with Russia is afraid of being “deceived” a second time.

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“This cooperation is irretrievably destroyed. And the West will recover faster than Russia,” he concluded.

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Earlier, the German government said that the German Cabinet did not change its position on the Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline, the certification of which was stopped in February.