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Berlin (dpa) - The Bundestag has decided that Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD) must leave the federal-state conference on the corona pandemic and come to parliament immediately in order to take part in an ongoing debate on Russia policy.
The Greens submitted the application on Wednesday.
The Bundestag session was suspended until the Minister's arrival.
The background to this is that Scholz is said to have made the United States an offer worth billions to prevent sanctions against the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.
On Tuesday, the German Environmental Aid (DUH) published a corresponding document.
According to this, Scholz (SPD) has offered the USA up to one billion euros in import subsidies for their liquid gas.
The US is fighting the pipeline because it wants to prevent Europe from becoming too dependent on Russian energy supplies.
Proponents of the gas pipeline, on the other hand, have long accused the Americans of only wanting to sell their liquefied gas in Europe.
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The Treasury Department has not yet commented on the document published by the DUH, citing the confidentiality of the negotiations with the US.
The Greens do not want to accept that because it is about tax money and the Bundestag has sovereignty over the federal budget.
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