Charter 97: EU ‘not to extend Nord Stream’

The Ukraine conflict may have dealt a fatal blow to Russia's plans to extend Nord Stream. Russia’s plans to extend its Nord Stream gas pipeline to the UK and the Netherlands may have become collateral damage of the conflict in Ukraine, an expert on Russia has told UK newspaper the Times.

The European Union has gone cold on the project since the conflict in Ukraine broke out, due to the sanctions against Russia the EU imposed in response to Moscow’s meddling in Ukraine, and worries over Europe’s overdependence on Russian gas supplies, John Lough, associate fellow on the Russia and Eurasia Program at UK think tank Chatham House told the newspaper.

British officials had been in favor of the pipeline project two years ago when it was first mooted, but the Ukraine conflict and the resulting tensions in EU-Russian relations have all but dealt a death blow to the plans, the expert said, UNIAN reports.
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