Angela Merkel’s 'biggest mistake'

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Nord Stream 2 pipeline Angela Merkel’s 'biggest mistake', says Donald Tusk Tusk said Merkel was 'helpless' in the face of the lobbying of German business interests. It comes as Germany urges the US not to sanction the pipeline. "From the perspective of EU interests, Nord Stream 2 is a bad project," Tusk said, as reported by Polish news outlet PAP. Tusk also stated that Merkel had recognized this in a conversation the two had had. He added that Merkel had been 'helpless' in the face of the lobbying of German business interests. "I've done everything I could to make the EU less reliant on Russian gas, including establishing an energy union," said Tusk. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been vocal in his opposition to the pipeline, calling it a "dangerous geopolitical weapon of the Kremlin". By bypassing Ukraine, the pipeline deprives the country of gas transit fees. Poland has been one of the most vocal critics of the pipeline, arguing that it hands Moscow influence over Central and Eastern European countries. Tusk has previously voiced open criticism of Merkel over the project. The US has long objected to the pipeline, but the Biden administration waived sanctions as part of a compromise with Germany. In this deal, Germany and the United States agreed to invest in green energy in Ukraine and to impose sanctions on Russia if it were to use the pipeline as a political weapon. *Biden made them weak, blood on his hands, his war, bad policy.