Gazprom is behind the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. (AFP pic)
KIEV: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday urged Germany to abandon plans to build a controversial second pipeline to bring gas from Russia, saying it would enable a “blockade” against his country.
The Nord Stream 2 project is “political bribe money for loyalty to Russia,” Poroshenko told German business newspaper Handelsblatt.
Building it would mean “imposing an economic and energy blockade on Ukraine” he added, charging that the pipeline has “no economic justification”.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called Nord Stream 2 a purely “economic project” with no need for political intervention, but …read more
Source: Free Malaysia Today
