GERMANY SEEKS TO SOOTH POLAND OVER NORD STREAM EXPANSION
February 1st, 2016
GERMANY has been trying to soothe opposition to plans to double the capacity of the current Nord Stream 1 and 2 lines. The country’s Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel travelled to Warsaw to mollify Poland’s new conservative government, which has been upset by the proposal. Gabriel said the expansion would only go ahead if Russia renewed its gas transit contract with Ukraine after it ends in 2019 and also if Moscow promised to continue shipments to eastern Europe via the Yamal pipeline linking Russia with Poland, Belarus and Germany. The diplomatic moves ...
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