The German Foreign Minister Friedrich Merz, promised on Wednesday that his country would make “everything” to avoid a commissioning of the Nord Stream 2 gas portfolio, a new mentioned hypothesis to supply Russian gas to Europe. “We will continue to increase the pressure on Russia,” said Friedrich Merz at a press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Berlin.
On Sunday, the head of the Government of Saxony Michael Kretschmer, a tenor of the conservative party of Friedrich Merz, had judged that a rebirth of the gas pipe would constitute “a possible openness for a dialogue with Russia.” “Nord Stream 2 currently has no operational authorization, and that will not change,” said Friedrich Merz in mid -May.
Gazprom has the pipeline operation
Russian gas traffic routes to Europe, the behavior of Nord Sream 2, which connects Russia with Germany next to the Baltic Sea, have been abandoned by inexplicable explosions in September 2022, a few months after the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine. The two Nord Stream 1 gas pipe pipes since 2011 were destroyed, while an NS2 pipe seems intact.
The latter, completed in 2021, has never obtained the necessary operational authorization to begin transporting the gas given the increase in russia tensions, accused of using gas deliveries to press Europe and Ukraine.
However, several media have mentioned in recent months the hypothesis so unthinkable of their implementation in the context of an approach between Kremlin and US President Donald Trump. The NS2 operational company, based in Switzerland, is currently owned by the Gazprom Russian energy Gazprom. Insolvenible, this company recently escaped the liquidation, Justice approved an agreement concluded with its creditors, including several European energy companies such as Engie, Omv, Shell, Uniper e Wintershall.
This judicial decision in theory leaves the possibility of investigating a new investor in the gas pipeline. But the technical, financial and geopolitical challenges for a possible implementation of NS2 are very numerous, at the forefront of which Germany’s refusal to issue a certification to this team that leads to its territory.
Source: BFM TV
