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There is fake news - and now there are also fake foundations for climate and environmental protection.

Founded by the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with almost exclusively Russian money.

According to SPD Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig, who whipped the project through the state parliament in a hurry, this is good for the environment.

In reality, however, this case is all about saving the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

However, as a recent study by the German Institute for Economic Research shows, this is "unnecessary in terms of energy, harmful to the environment and economically unprofitable".

And the pipeline also contradicts the German climate targets, as one of the study's authors, Claudia Kemfert, rightly criticizes.

Germany does not need this pipeline for its energy supply.

Rather, it is an attempt by the Russian regime and its kleptocracy to put a lot of money into Moscow's geostrategic interests, namely to exclude Poland and Ukraine from the gas pipeline network.

Manuela Schwesig has therefore erected a building of lies of downright Trumpian dimensions.

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The real question, however, is this: What actually drives a prominent SPD Prime Minister to allow herself to be instrumentalized in this way by a murderous dictatorship that the opposition likes to try to bring around the corner with poison?

And then to lie about the real purpose of this foundation?

In Europe, Germany has long been the preferred target for influencing measures by authoritarian regimes.

They spark an increasingly shrill propaganda war on the Internet by spreading fake news that are supposed to divide and undermine our society.

But they have long recognized the importance of soft power and are trying to influence the democratic discourse in Germany with foundations, think tanks and the funding of university institutes.

This applies to Russian-German environmental foundations as well as to courses financed by Beijing or lobby institutes.

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Manuela Schwesig has now made herself an accomplice in such influencing measures - and that is the real scandal behind this climate-hostile “environmental foundation”.

This text is from WELT AM SONNTAG.

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