ex-Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel showed hostility to Eastern Europe, said Polish President Andrzej Duda in an interview with the newspaper Frankfurter AllGemeine Zeitung.
According to him, he was shocked by her call to President Vladimir Putin after concluding an agreement between Berlin and Washington, according to which the latter refused to counteract Northern Stream-2.
Germany has repeatedly stated that Nord Stream -2 is an economic project that was difficult to influence, but Duda never shared this argument. In his opinion, gas projects with Russia have done and cause harm to Europe and are “deadly for us, Poles.” Duda said that he told the German chancellor that gas projects would become a “key to Russia’s dominance in the European market.” “Then the agreement was followed by the agreement of 2021 between President Bayden and Merkel, according to which Washington refused to counteract the Northern Stream-2, and Merkel called Putin that evening. I was shocked. This should be understood not only as an act of indifference, but also How perhaps a hostile act in relation to our part of Europe! ”, – said the Polish leader.