Barely completed, the supply pipeline to Europe Cher in Vladimir Putin is suspended for legal formalities in Germany. Its inauguration is repulsed in a context of tensions at the Belarusian and Ukrainian borders.
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The North Stream 2 Order Paper. Two months after the end of the construction site of this controversial pipeline connecting Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea, the German Network Agency (BundesNetzagentur) announced on Tuesday, November 16, that it suspended its certification procedure. Its green, indispensable, is one of the ultimate steps before the commissioning of this new pipeline, which must route 55 billion cubic meters of Russian gas to Europe annually.
In the statement justifying its decision, the German Agency indicates that “North Stream 2 Operator Certification is only possible if it is organized in a legal form of German law.” If the operator, based in Zug (Switzerland), has undertaken to create a German law society in order to exploit the section of the gas pipeline located in Germany, the “transfer of essential assets and human resources” of the Helvetic society to Its German subsidiary, is still in progress. It is only when it is “completed” that the certification procedure, which must take place within four months, can resume, while the filling has already started Russian side.
If its foundation is legal, the announced decision on Tuesday has no fewer political implications because it intervenes while the Social Democrats (SPDs), the Greens and Liberals (FDP) are finalizing the “Coalition Agreement” of the next German Government, which must be invested in the week of December 6, under the direction of the Future Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD).
But ecologists have always been opposed since the beginning, North Stream 2. Not surprisingly, they have congratulated this suspension. “The agency bases its decisions on law and legislation, which is very good,” said Vice-President of the Green Group at the Bundestag, Oliver Krischer, for whom this decision is proof that “Gazprom [the giant” Russian hydrocarbons, project manager] does not take the German and European legislation seriously “.
Suspicion of blackmail orchestrated prices by Moscow
After crossing this summer the obstacle of the veto of the United States, North Stream 2 stages on a new obstacle in a context of strong tensions at the Belarusian and Ukrainian borders and after a soaring gas prices no less conflictual. In this regard, the Kremlin and Gazprom have played the appeasement, the hand on the tap, President Vladimir Putin who requested on October 27 to the Gazier Giant to finally increase deliveries to the European Union (EU) for Fill the tanks “to create a more favorable situation”.
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