4/28 “The funny thing is that prime ministers who do not like a political commission, including Mark (Rutte, the Netherlands’ prime minister), always call us right away if they have a political problem at home,” he said.
12/13 German officials say they had hoped to use Nord Stream’s expected demise as a bargaining chip in talks with Poland, /which is dead set against the pipeline. In exchange for backing away from Nord Stream, Berlin wanted Warsaw to drop demands that Germany pay war reparations./