According to Poland's incoming conservative Minister for EU Affairs, Konrad Szymański,plans to build the Nord Stream 2 pipeline "go far beyond matters of energy, because in our region of Europe, the gas trade has strategic consequences". He also pointed to the risk that a Russian monopoly on gas supplies to the EU could violate the bloc's competition rules.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk also blasted the Gazprom plan earlier this month, claiming it would cost his country $2 billion a year in lost revenue.He further argued the move would respectively deprive EU members Slovakia and Poland of $800 million and $300 million in revenue each year.
In June, Russian energy giant Gazprom agreed with its western European partners - Anglo-Dutch Shell, Germany's E.ON, France's ENGIE and Austria's OMV - to build the second gas pipeline to Germany, bypassing conflict-torn Ukraine, but also its EU neighbour Poland.The pipeline under the Baltic Sea would have a capacity of 55 billion cubic metres per year and would double the flow of the existing Nord Stream pipeline currently linking the two countries. Read more at http://www.euractiv.com
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk also blasted the Gazprom plan earlier this month, claiming it would cost his country $2 billion a year in lost revenue.He further argued the move would respectively deprive EU members Slovakia and Poland of $800 million and $300 million in revenue each year.
In June, Russian energy giant Gazprom agreed with its western European partners - Anglo-Dutch Shell, Germany's E.ON, France's ENGIE and Austria's OMV - to build the second gas pipeline to Germany, bypassing conflict-torn Ukraine, but also its EU neighbour Poland.The pipeline under the Baltic Sea would have a capacity of 55 billion cubic metres per year and would double the flow of the existing Nord Stream pipeline currently linking the two countries. Read more at http://www.euractiv.com
