Peter Felser
Nord Stream 2
February 9, 2019
[Peter
Felser is an Alternative für Deutschland Bundestag
member form the southern German state of Bavaria. He is an information
technology businessman and sits on the Bundestag’s food and agriculture
committee. ]
… A German-French friendship treaty was recently staged with
great pathos by Merkel and Macron and already one of the partners, France,
assists American economic policy against the befriended Germany. Macron has
with Brussels recently negotiated for the French energy sector the first
exception regulations to the EU gas guidelines. He is now blocking the
diversification of the European energy supply to the benefit of American and
French energy concerns. With that is it quite clear how fragile and to whose
detriment is the design of the “German-French Partnership”, the “Spirit of
Aachen”.
A diversified energy supply is in the German interest. Germany is
not the self-service store of our American friends. The discreetly silent
acceptance of U.S. ambassador to Berlin [Richard] Grenell’s blatant threats is
unworthy of a sovereign nation. The presently negotiated compromise cannot
remove disappointment over disunity in the EU and the federal government’s
susceptibility to extortion.
The financing of Polish and Ukrainian transit tariffs moreover
burdens the German taxpayer and increases energy costs for the citizen. A
promotion of independence in the energy sector would directly relieve those of
low income.
