The implementation of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project is in Germany's and Europe's interests, the cochairman of the Left faction in the German parliament, Dietmar Bartsch, said on Friday, amid calls for revising the project in the wake of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny's alleged poisoning

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is continuing the probe of Alexey Navalny case and will provide results later, the spokeswoman for the German Foreign Ministry, Maria Adebahr, said Friday

The heads of the East German states at a conference in Berlin called for the continuation of the construction of Nord Stream 2, Der Spiegel weekly reported, citing its own information

Foreign ministers of EU states will discuss the bloc's relationship with Russia in detail in October in light of the situation with opposition figure Alexey Navalny, a source told reporters on Friday

The alleged poisoning of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny with Novichok might be used by the United States as a tool for pressuring Germany into halting the Russian-developed Nord Stream 2 gas project, German lawmakers told Sputnik on Friday

The German parliament refused, by a majority of votes, to vote on the merits of the proposal put forward by the Green Party to stop the Nord Stream 2 project, which was submitted to the relevant committee

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has video conferenced with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Friday to discuss the situation on the Greek island of Lesbos following a series of devastating fires in its Moria refugee camp, the German government said

The German government is still looking into Russia's second request for legal assistance in probing the alleged poisoning of opposition figure Alexey Navalny and is yet to hand it to the Berlin office of justice, the Federal Justice Ministry said

France and Sweden tested samples of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny independently from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the spokesman for the German government, Steffen Seibert, said Friday