"The Baltic Sea pipeline would not lead to a one-sided dependency on Russia, which would in fact be dangerous," says CDU foreign policy spokesman Eckart von Klaeden. "After all, the enormous Russian investments have to be paid off."
There is an increasingly long list of topics on which Germany is standing firm to the US. Which makes France's position (up Bush's ass) all the more annoying. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes