{"id":381248,"date":"2018-10-16T21:08:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T20:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-shouldnt-interfere-in-european-energy-policy\/"},"modified":"2018-10-16T21:08:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T20:08:36","slug":"presstv-us-shouldnt-interfere-in-european-energy-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-shouldnt-interfere-in-european-energy-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-&#8216;US shouldn&#8217;t interfere in European energy policy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A top German diplomat says the United States must not determine the European energy policy after\u00a0President Donald Trump launched a sharp public attack on Germany for supporting a Baltic Sea gas pipeline deal with Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Foreign Ministry State Secretary Andreas Michaelis told a conference on transatlantic ties hosted by the Aspen Institute think tank in Berlin on Tuesday that Russia would remain a key energy supplier for Europe, regardless of US pressure on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is part of European core interests,\u201d Michaelis said, adding, \u201cI don\u2019t want European energy policy to be defined in Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The United States strongly opposes the project, which is led by Russian gas giant Gazprom and financed by five Western companies, but Michaelis said it was a matter of national sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to consult the European partners. We need to have a sound model that works,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cBut I\u2019m certainly not willing to accept&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/16\/577182\/Germany-trump-energy-EU\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top German diplomat says the United States must not determine the European energy policy after\u00a0President Donald Trump launched a sharp public attack on Germany for supporting a Baltic Sea gas pipeline deal with Russia. Foreign Ministry State Secretary Andreas Michaelis told a conference on transatlantic ties hosted by the Aspen Institute think tank in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}