Punishment against Russia need to cancel, said ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the CDU Prime Minister of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer in the interview the German newspaper Bild. "We want the relations with Russia have improved. For this reason, the punishment ought to cancel, " said Kretschmer. He drew attention that the restrictive measures to the capital of Russia " not failed ", but instead hurt the German economy. Zakonski the Prime Minister added his words by the fact that at the international conference on the resolution of the Libyan conflict in Berlin Russia has shown that it can be constructive interference. in addition, Kretschmer believes that Germany is also necessary and constructive interaction with the United States. However, in his vision, the American leader Donald trump is " torn in geopolitics ", which explains, for example, punishment of the US capital against the " Nord stream - 2 ", which, According to the Prime Minister of Saxony, stunned the German public. The project "Northern stream - 2" involves the construction of 2 pipelines with a total capacity of 55 billion cubic meters of gas per year from the coast of Russia through the Baltic sea to Germany. at the beginning of winter trump has signed the defense budget for 2020, which provides for penalties against the projects "Nord stream - 2" and " Turkish stream ". Swiss company Allseas, which was engaged in laying the " Nord stream - 2 ", stopped work and took special vehicles. later, the state Department said that the contractors of the pipeline construction have the opportunity to defend the injunction, if it stops working until 20 January 2020, However, Allseas decided not to renew the gasket. the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation has told that the American punishment look Like a gesture of despair, they will not be able to block the Project. As noticed the head of "Gazprom" Alexey Miller, the organization has the capacity for independent completion of the project, But it will take more time than previously expected. <span style="color:darkgray