the North Stream 2 says that it and the companies which provide to the project, will work to a rapid completion.
the Group behind the Russian gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 informs that there is now over 2300 kilometres of pipeline.
There are in total added approximately 2460 kilometres of pipeline.
the Consortium behind the North Stream 2 says that there is a shortage of around 160 kilometers of gas pipeline before the project is finished.
According to the Nord Stream 2 will the and the companies, which provide to the project, continue efforts for a rapid completion.
the UNITED states has, however, imposed sanctions against both the North Stream 2, which will go from Russia to Germany, and against Turkstream, which goes from Russia to Turkey. Americans believe that both the europeans and the turks become more and more dependent on Russia.
From the Russian side rejected the sanctions from the UNITED states as an attempt to continue the american dominance in the energy markets.
– The nearest allies being punished in order to solve their economic problems, says the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, in the Russian parliament, according to news agency Tass.
A major sub-contractor withdrew from the Nord Stream 2 project in the last week due to u.s. sanctions.
the Pipeline is to go past the island of Bornholm, are politically inflamed in both Europe and thus also problematic for the relationship between the UNITED states and Europe.
According to the now signed us law is the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline “a tool of coercion and political influence”, which will weaken the UNITED states’s relationship with Germany and the EU.
Europe has asked the US to intervene since, without the construction of the Nord Stream 2.
Nord Stream 2 will double the Russian gas exports to Germany. The first line – the Nord Stream – which runs in parallel with Nord Stream 2, was inaugurated in 2011.
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