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Berlin (AP) - The Greens chairman Robert Habeck calls on the new CDU boss Armin Laschet to take steps against the new foundation to circumvent US sanctions against the Baltic Sea gas pipeline Nord Stream 2. «Mr Laschet has to change the position of his party, the CDU , correct and position yourself clearly against Nord Stream 2 and prevent the foundation that is supposed to make this pipeline possible, ”said Habeck on Monday in Berlin.

The gas pipeline should be stopped as leverage for more human rights in Russia and for the release of the Russian

Habeck called the arrest of the Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny "unacceptable and illegal".

Navalny was arrested on his return to Russia.

A Russian court sentenced him to 30 days in prison on an urgent basis.

He left Germany on Sunday after five months recovering from an attack with the neurotoxin Novitschok.

The federal government should not leave it at rhetorical indignation.

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, ruled by the SPD and CDU, wants to overturn the sanctions threatened by the USA with an environmental foundation aimed at the common good.

Consideration is given to buying the foundation's components and machines, which are essential for the completion of the gas pipeline, through a commercial enterprise closely tied to Nord Stream 2.

“This foundation is a Gazprom foundation, even if it operates under a different name.

It is only there to complete this pipeline with this money from Putin, ”said Habeck, referring to the Russian state company Gazprom and President Vladimir Putin.

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The pipeline is unnecessary for the European energy supply, argued Habeck.

Europe has a capacity of 700 billion cubic meters of gas, but in 2015 only 300 billion of it were used.

He was referring to gas imports.

The projections for the next decade ranged from 300 billion to 600 billion.

According to calculations by the EU Commission, energy consumption will then be reduced by 60 to 88 percent anyway.

"We have overcapacity, we don't need Nord Stream 2."

Even within Europe there is little support for the construction, rather Germany is acting against the interests of other European states, which accuse the Federal Republic of: "You are perhaps chimneys."

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