Italian Prime Minister Mario Dragi expressed the hope that the need to introduce sanctions on the North Stream-2 gas pipeline will not appear, since these measures will entail serious consequences, reports TASS.
Speaking in the Senate, Dragi expressed concern about possible measures for the “Northern Flow-2”. If the gas pipeline becomes part of the apparatus of sanctions and it will become inevitable, then it will significantly affect gas prices, “he stressed.
Politician added that the geopolitical factor forms the cost of gas. “North Stream-2 has and can be a tool to negotiate in politics between the EU and Russia,” the Italian Prime Minister was frightened.
Earlier in Germany, the sanction against the “Northern Flow-2” was called no meaning. However, a candidate for the post of leader of the German party Christian-Democratic Union (XDS) Friedrich Merz stressed that while the gas pipeline cannot be certified. “