Merkel Coalition Hits Back at Trump's Attack on Gas Pipeline
Germany’s governing coalition pushed back against President Donald Trump’s criticism of a gas pipeline with Russia, widening trans-Atlantic tension beyond conflicts over trade and security.
Trump on Tuesday reprised his allegation that Germany isn’t “paying” its fair share for NATO, while throwing in a hit at the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that directly links Germany and Russia. Germany will be paying “billions of dollars” to Russia, Trump said at the White House. “That’s not right.”
“This is fake news,” Joachim Pfeiffer, a senior lawmaker from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party, said in an interview. “He’s comparing apples and oranges.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...n-gas-pipeline
Germany’s governing coalition pushed back against President Donald Trump’s criticism of a gas pipeline with Russia, widening trans-Atlantic tension beyond conflicts over trade and security.
Trump on Tuesday reprised his allegation that Germany isn’t “paying” its fair share for NATO, while throwing in a hit at the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that directly links Germany and Russia. Germany will be paying “billions of dollars” to Russia, Trump said at the White House. “That’s not right.”
“This is fake news,” Joachim Pfeiffer, a senior lawmaker from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party, said in an interview. “He’s comparing apples and oranges.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...n-gas-pipeline
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