Nord Stream-2 is still dogged by politics
Nord Stream-2, the second gas pipeline from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea, has seemed to become a victim of the policy, and it will be possible to write it in the next line in the bill for "The Crimea is ours". With the current state of affairs, it can hardly to be built.
The problem has legal, economic, environmental and political aspects. And if we can argue and negotiate on the first three of them, the political one today blocks the most compelling arguments of the project supporters.
The controversy around Nord Stream-2 revived in the first week of April. Gazprom sent a heavy artillery in the name of former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in the attack. On April 5, he arrived at the European Commission. The next day, leaders of the four major factions of the European Parliament organized a conference to discuss the controversial project.
The head of the press centre of the European Commission Margaritis Shinas came under cross-question of the journalists at the daily briefing: his chief Jean-Claude Juncker meets Schroeder as who? The answer is not without humor. They say that Mr. Juncker was a member of the European Council as the Prime Minister of Luxembourg for 19 years and kept friendships with former colleagues. The old friend came to visit. Like this. I said, and you write what you think...
