This made little impression on their German EU partners – unsurprisingly, since Schroeder now chairs the consortium that will build the pipeline. As former French Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy put it in 1981, when he refused to cancel a gas deal with the USSR over the imposition of martial law in Poland, “Should the suffering of French people deprived of gas be added to the suffering of Polish people deprived of freedom?”
这对它们的德意志欧盟合作伙伴而言，几乎没有造成什么影响。这倒在意料之中，因为施罗德现在正担任着管道修建财团的主席。正如1981年在波兰实行戒严令期间，法国前总理皮埃尔·莫鲁瓦(Pierre Mauroy) 拒绝取消与前苏联的一笔天然气交易时所说：“应该在波兰人民因为自由被剥夺的痛苦上，再加上法国人民因为天然气被剥夺的痛苦吗？”旧习难改。