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Germany will take measures to protect their interests in case the previously announced Washington’s imposition of sanctions against the “Nord stream-2”, RIA Novosti reported citing the head of the Bundestag Committee on energy Klaus Ernst.

“the behavior of the US in this matter should no longer be understood as a friendly act, it is an attack on the sovereignty of Germany and the EU,” the MP stated. According to him, in response, the German authorities also consider the taxation of supplies of liquefied natural gas from U.S. special penalty fees.

Recall that on the eve it became known that in the United States Senate prepared a bill to expand sanctions against the “Nord stream-2”. The document provides for the blacklisting of insurance companies that cater to engaged in pipe-laying vessels.