Dispute over Russia sanctions: Greens faction chief sees “Russia-Connection” in CDU | EUROtoday

The Green Group chief Britta Haßelmann has sharply criticized the statements by the Saxon Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer for loosening the Russia sanctions. “While Putin continues to throw bombs on Ukraine, Prime Minister Kretschmer is re-accumulating to the warmonger,” she instructed the German Press Agency. Haßelmann requested the CDU chairman Friedrich Merz to “process the Moscow Connection as soon as possible in his party”.

Kretschmer: Sanction regime “completely fell out of time”

The deputy CDU boss Michael Kretschmer had criticized the specific no Germany and different European international locations to chill out the sanctions in opposition to Russia in an interview by the German Press Agency. “It fell from time completely and doesn’t suit what the Americans are doing,” he stated. “If you realize that you weaken yourself more than the other person, then you have to think about whether it’s all right.”

Haßelmann calls Kretschmer “Putin friend”

Haßelmann stated {that a} loosening of the punitive measures imposed within the Russian assault on the Russian assault on Ukraine could be a critical mistake. “This would also make it out of Europe’s common action.” From the CDU management, the Greens faction chief requested for distances of statements reminiscent of that of Kretschmer. “Putin-Freunde” such because the Saxon Prime Minister, the CDU member of the Bundestag Thomas Bareiß or the deputy CDU parliamentary group chief in North Rhine-Westphalia, Jan Heinisch, and her Russia course ought to play no position within the coalition negotiations.

“Friedrich Merz and the top of the CDU can no longer duck away and finally have to take a clear position to revive the Moscow Connection. The time to marry the topic is over,” stated the Greens parliamentary group chief.

Other CDU politicians induced a sensation with expressions of Russia

Like Merz, Kretschmer is likely one of the ten Union members within the central negotiation group of coalition talks with the SPD. Bareiß and Heinisch are in specialist working teams – Bareiß within the infrastructure, Heinisch within the for power. Both had seen statements about Russia throughout the negotiations.

Heinisch had stated “Politico”: “If one day a fair and safe peace is found, then you have to be able to talk about the purchase of Russian gas again”. Bareiß had written to rumors a few reactivation of the Baltic Sea pipeline Nord Stream 2 on LinkedIn: If peace prevailed once more, the relationships normalized, the Embargos went again ultimately, “of course gas can flow again, maybe this time in a pipeline under US (sic) control”. This is a choice of the market.