Senior German MP: Nord Stream 2 must be part of response to Navalny poisoning

BERLIN, Sept 3- A European response that involves the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is needed against Russia after the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny with a Soviet-style Novichok nerve agent, a senior German lawmaker in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party said. “There must be a European response,” Norbert Roettgen told Deutschlandfunk radio on Thursday.

BERLIN, Sept 3 (Reuters) – A European response that involves

the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is needed against Russia after

the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny with a

Soviet-style Novichok nerve agent, a senior German lawmaker in

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party said.

“There must be a European response,” Norbert Roettgen toldDeutschlandfunk radio on Thursday. “We must pursue hardpolitics, we must respond with the only language (RussianPresident Vladimir) Putin understands – that is gas sales,” hesaid.(Reporting by Thomas Seythal and Madeline Chambers)