Nord Stream II, a proposed new Russia-Germany gas pipeline, is not in the EU’s interests, the European Council President Donald Tusk has said.
“In my perspective, Nord Stream [II] does not help diversification, nor would it reduce our energy dependency,” Tusk has said at a press conference in Brussels on Friday, according to euobserver.com.
Initially not on the agenda of a two-day summit, EU leaders discussed Nord Stream II on Friday morning as part of a wider debate on Energy Union, the bloc’s energy strategy aimed at reducing the bloc’s dependence on dominant suppliers.
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Source: Novinite
