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Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @09:26AM (#19491547)
> why the hell France (or the rest of the EU) even cares about where Germany gets their gas from in the first place?

For the same reasons New York might care how Alaska gets its energy. Climate change concerns. Concerns that a fellow voting union member is building critical economic and energy ties with an authoritarian regime. (More selfishly, perhaps, because New York wants to sell them its own energy.)

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Re:European Parliament approves copyright reform by DarkWiiPlayer on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:42AM (#19492282)
> Climate change concerns.

For Germany, the alternative currently seems to be coal, which is one of the reasons I find this somewhat annoying. If it was a matter of "Nord Stream 2 or wind energy" I'd say "fuck that Russian gas, let's go green!" But alas, that's not what this is about.

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