Two days before Trump’s end of office, the US government is imposing sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea pipeline. The US government wants to impose sanctions on the German-Russian Baltic Sea pipeline Nord Stream 2 for the first time. The punitive measures are to be announced tomorrow, Tuesday, and concern the Russian laying ship “Fortuna”, which is involved in the construction of the pipeline, said a spokeswoman for the Federal Ministry of Economics. The US embassy in Berlin informed the federal government about this. “We take note of this with regret.” The “Handelsblatt” had previously reported on it. So far, the US government has only threatened sanctions for the controversial gas pipeline, but has not yet imposed any. With the new punitive measures, Donald Trump’s administration wants to implement the threat for the first time shortly before its end of office this Wednesday. The US State Department initially did not comment on request. A US government official said back in November that the government had identified a number of companies and individuals facing initial sanctions. A spokeswoman for the US State Department announced last Wednesday that the companies concerned had been contacted. They were informed about the risk based on the new sanctions law, should they continue to participate in Nord Stream 2.

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The Trump administration, but also Congress, have been storming Nord Stream 2 for a long time. At the end of 2019, construction work on the pipeline was stopped shortly before completion after the USA had enacted a first sanctions law (Peesa) against the special ships, who laid the pipes. The two Swiss laying vessels were withdrawn. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he would complete the pipeline independently – regardless of foreign partners. Work had resumed last month. At the beginning of the year, a US law came into force that expanded the sanction options. Under this new law (Peesca), companies that provide ships for other activities related to laying work can also be penalized. This could include digging trenches for the pipeline. Companies that insure affected ships or make their port facilities available to them are also threatened with sanctions. The same goes for companies that certify the pipeline so that it can go live.

The term of office of Trump and his administration ends with the swearing-in of future US President Joe Biden next Wednesday. A US government official had put a damper on hopes that Washington would change course in the dispute over Nord Stream 2 after the presidential election in November. He had pointed out that both Peesa and Peesca received bipartisan support and provided mandatory sanctions. “That means that the sanctions will be implemented regardless of who sits in the Oval Office.” In his earlier role as US Vice President under Barack Obama, Biden had called the pipeline “a fundamentally bad deal for Europe”.

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