He said this during a joint press conference with his Polish counterpart Jacek Chaputovic.
“Just thinking about sanctions or perhaps initiating new ones does not change anything in our position on Nord Stream 2,” TASS quoted him as saying.
Maas stressed that the sanctions discussed are extraterritorial in nature.
“We reject them,” the minister added.
Earlier, the head of the German Bundestag committee on energy, Klaus Ernst, proposed introducing similar measures against US senators who advocate sanctions against Nord Stream 2.
He added that this is not about economics, but about German sovereignty.