Well....it's an odd story.
As the Nord Stream II pipeline got permissions done and started up....they had a fair amount of 'help' from the state government of Mecklenburg-Vorpommen (run by the SPD Party). At the top of the 'help' group was the Premier-President Manuela Schwesig.
There are suggestions that things were corrupted in some way.
So the Green Party of the region are pushing now for a state-run truth commission to determine who did what, and how corrupt was this.
Where this might go?
I can see three scenarios: (1) Gazprom (the Russian company running the natural gas pipeline) shuttled funds toward the SPD folks to get permissions done easily, (2) Mecklenburg got no funding but pushed aside environmental concerns, or (3) nothing much unethical/illegal occurred.
If you haven't figured that out.....there's a fight brewing over SPD-voters and the Greens believe they can trim the SPD's 'shadow' down a good bit. To be honest, the Greens may have zero evidence, and simply be 'fishing' for evidence.
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