Nord Stream 2.

  The economic impact of Nord Stream 2 (NS2) on Central and Eastern Europe was broadly assessed during a debate organised by Central Europe Energy Partners (CEEP) and the European Policy Centre (EPC), in Brussels, 18th of October.

-By introducing sanctions against companies that decided to engage in the Russian Nord Stream project, the USA sent a strong message, which says this endeavor is burdened with explicit political risk. At the same time the Americans have time and again proven that they will not shy away from executing their law even when it […]

The German government should agree to let the European Commission take over the negotiations on the terms of construction of Nord Stream 2 with Russia, wrote Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung last Wednesday. The construction of the gas pipeline is a source of concern for Central and Eastern European countries – reminds the daily.

Polish and Lithuanian relations have recently improved. They share longtime history, are NATO and EU members and it turns out that they perceive their common problems similarly. We talked to the foreign minister of Lithuania Linas Linkeviczius about threats and opportunities of the neighbouring countries.

A meeting of European Council’s working group concerning a mandate for the European Commission for negotiating legal status of a controversial project Nord Stream 2 was supposed to take place this week. It did not happen, because Council’s legal services had not prepared a statement.

In recent months, two alarming decisions have been made by the European Commission (EC). First, in October 2016, the European Commission accepted, at the request of a German regulator, a further exemption from allowing third-party access (TPA) to the OPAL gas pipeline connecting northern Germany and the Czech Republic. Next, in March 2017, the European […]

Backstage gambits done by ex- KGB and Stasi agents and connections between politics and big business – according to investigative journalist Jens Høvsgaard, this is what circumstances around construction of Nord Stream looked like. His book „Spionerne der kom ind med varmen” that describes backstage of this controversial investment has only just made it to Danish bookstores. According […]

As part of my work for Free Russia Foundation, I am carrying out research on two projects. The first one is devoted to influencing that Gazprom and its pipeline projects have in the EU. The second is an ongoing project called Underminers which focuses on agents of post-Soviet corruption in the West and will be fully launched […]

While analysing the relation between Nord Stream 2 (NS2) and European policy making, the reference point should be the statement of the German Vice-Chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, who, during a bilateral meeting with President Vladimir Putin in October 2015, declared, regarding NS2, that Germany will “ensure that all this remains under the competence of the German […]

The Rzeczpospolita daily reported that former German chancellor received his third position in Russia. After being on the board of Nord Stream and its twin Nord Stream 2 he received the proposal to join the Board of Directors at Russia’s TNK-BP. How come Germans have such a good opinion in Russia’s energy sector? This cannot […]