When Polish regulators struck down a deal this past month to construct Nord Stream 2—a gas pipeline connecting Russia with Germany via the Baltic Sea—we wondered whether we were seeing the death of the project. Poland’s concern centered on the anti-competition effect the pipeline would have in Europe by making the continent more reliant on Russian supplies of natural gas, and the Polish President’s antitrust authority confidently declared that the intervention “would stop the deal.”That hasn’t happened, or at least it hasn’t happened yet. Gazprom still seems intent on going through with Nord Stream 2, though now it’s having to …read more
Source: The American Interest
