The Baltic Backchannel: AfD and Gazprom Discuss Restarting Nord Stream Pipelines

How Germany’s leading populist party is bypassing Brussels to hold direct talks with Gazprom, leveraging the global energy crisis to revive the Russian interdependence.

The foreign policy spokesperson of the German far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has met with the head of Gazprom in St Petersburg.

The party, which currently leads Germany’s polls, wants to reopen the sabotaged gas pipelines and resume energy interdependence with Russia. Something big is moving in Europe, where the energy crisis originati…