Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel will step down in September after a remarkable career on behalf of her nation. But she leaves behind a controversial pipeline partnership with Moscow that will increase Germany’s energy dependency on an increasingly aggressive Russia and has frayed Berlin’s relationship with the United States, the European Union, as well as Germany’s neighbors.
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Diane Francis: Will Merkel’s legacy be defined by Nord Stream 2?
Gas pipes bound for the Russian pipe laying vessel Akademik Cherskiy (not in picture) that is moored in the port of Mukran near Sassnitz on the Baltic Sea island of Ruegen, north eastern Germany, are pictured on Sept. 7, 2020, as the ship waits to continue pipe laying works for the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline.
