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Angela Merkel is under growing domestic pressure (sức ép trong nước ngày càng tăng) to end her support for the joint German-Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline project (dự án đường ống dẫn khí) over the confirmed poisoning of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

The German Green party called on the chancellor (thủ tướng) to use the nearly completed infrastructure project to press the Kremlin into answering allegations (cáo buộc, kết tội) over what Merkel called the “silencing” (im lặng) of Navalny with a novichok nerve agent (chất độc thần kinh).

“This openly attempted murder (ám sát, giết hại) through the Kremlin’s mafia-like structures should not just worry us but needs to have real consequences,” said Katrin Göring-Eckardt, the co-chair of the Greens in the Bundestag.

“Nord Stream 2 is no longer something we can jointly pursue with Russia,” said the politician for the ecological party, currently second in polls to Merkel’s CDU and a likely contender for the next coalition government (chính phủ liên minh).