News Digest Item
22 Jun 2017

Nord Stream 2 "raw example of how Berlin captures the EU machinery"

The Telegraph

The planned Russian-German natural gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2 “is a raw example of how Berlin captures the EU machinery,” writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in an article for The Telegraph. “Brussels set aside EU law on Nord Stream, yet enforced it on the other pipelines such Yamal and Southstream. Solidarity and the rule of law in the EU apply only when the Kanzleramt chooses,” Evans-Pritchard writes.

Read the article in English here.

See the CLEW dossier The Energiewende's implications for international security for background.

All texts created by the Clean Energy Wire are available under a “Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0)” . They can be copied, shared and made publicly accessible by users so long as they give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

Journalism for the energy transition

Get our Newsletter
Join our Network
Find an interviewee