The European Union is seeking a mandate from member countries to negotiate with Russia over its plans to build a second pipeline to export more gas into Europe via the Baltic Sea to Germany, an EU document showed, as some EU states worry that the project will make Europe too reliant on Russian gas.
Reuters: EU seeks to negotiate with Russia over Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline
A worker of Russian gas and oil giant Gazprom works on Feb. 18, 2015 in Novoprtovskoye oil and gas condensates oilfield at Cape Kamenny in the Gulf of Ob shore line in the south-east of a peninsular in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, 250 km north of the town of Nadym, northern Russia.
