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Critics say the project puts European energy independence at risk, giving Russia outsized control over supplies.
Europe doesn't have energy independence, and this doesn't have anything to do with independence. It has to do with their investment in going to war with the Middle East for the last 18 years - a war they clearly lost.
richwicks saysEurope doesn't have energy independence, and this doesn't have anything to do with independence. It has to do with their investment in going to war with the Middle East for the last 18 years - a war they clearly lost.
I hope you're not vaping that shit, just smoking it. Vaping is bad for your lungs, m'kay?
Don't abandon us to Russia, America!
The real reason the French are doing this: They see the writing on the wall for them as far as to the dice will role if Germany gives Trump too many pretexts for formally leaving NATO. Mainly, France will be stuck with most the military bill to defend the rest of Europe. And this bill won't be so much as financial as it will be in blood and risk as it includes being the sole provider of Europe's nuclear umbrella as UK will probably leave NATO after the US does.
France's Foreign Ministry has signaled its intention to vote for changes to the EU's Third Energy Package Gas Directive regulating gas imports when the topic comes up for discussion Friday in Brussels.
The proposed changes would effectively extend existing rules to cover offshore pipelines. The posture signals a direct confrontation with Germany over the construction and operation of the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline that Berlin is currently building with Russia.
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Germany has been lobbying EU partners to support the German-Russian project, but has made little progress in allaying criticism, mostly from eastern and central European states, as well as Ukraine and more recently — and more vocally — from the United States.
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Critics say the project puts European energy independence at risk, giving Russia outsized control over supplies. Nord Stream 2 will be operated by the Russian gas giant Gazprom, and deliver Russian natural gas to Germany via a Baltic Sea pipeline. The EU rule changes would also bar suppliers from operating their own pipelines.
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Although Russia accounts for 30 percent of gas imports to Europe, natural gas makes up less than 10 percent of the bloc's overall energy mix. The United States is keen to increase sales of LNG to Germany and the EU, which is likely one major reason President Donald Trump has been so vocal in his opposition to the Nord Stream 2 project.
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