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"Mr President, work began several days ago on the construction of the Northern Gas Pipeline. This pipeline will harm the economic interests of the Baltic States and the Central European countries, including Poland, yet despite protests it will bypass these countries. Instead, it will link Russia and Germany directly, thus putting the energy security of one third of the EU at risk.
The construction of this gas pipeline could cause an environmental disaster in the Baltic region. Stockpiles of German chemical weapons were dumped in the Baltic Sea after World War II, and these could be disturbed during work on the pipeline. The poisonous chemicals would pollute the waters of the Baltic. Even the conclusion of the agreement on this pipeline was nothing short of scandalous. According to media reports, Gerhard Schröder will head the company’s board of directors, with Matthias Warning taking the role of company chairman. Until 1990, Mr Warning was an officer in the Stasi, East Germany’s secret police, and it was during this period that he allegedly got to know Vladimir Putin, who was a KGB agent at the time. The fact that a former chancellor is to be involved in a company whose interests he defended so vociferously is suspicious in the extreme.
I propose that a parliamentary committee should be appointed to investigate the issues surrounding the construction of this gas pipeline, as well as the threat that it poses to the environment and to the energy security of many EU Member States."@en1
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