The U.S.-EU deal on Nord Stream 2 published on July 21 makes a commitment to support EU law and specifically the bloc’s energy law. The authors of the deal have however ignored the current strategy of the gas pipeline’s driving force — the Kremlin-linked energy giant Gazprom. Russia is now preparing to ride roughshod over EU rules and seek, through brute force, to use its gas exports to make western Europe accept the pipeline on its own terms.
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Environmental activists hold up a poster reading "Clog pipelines" as they sit in a tube on the construction site for the European Gas Pipeline Link (EUGAL) pipeline in Wrangelsburg, northeastern Germany, on May 16, 2019.
