MEPs Calls EU Authorities to Cancel South Stream Agreements with Russia

The European Parliament urged European authorities to ‘stand up to’ Russia, adopting a resolution to stop President Vladimir Putin’s energy plans in the continent.

‘MEPs call on the EU to regulate third-party businesses in the areas of gas storage, interconnectors and flow-back facilities, and urge the EU countries to cancel planned energy sector agreements with Russia, including the South Stream gas pipeline,’ reads a note released by the Parliament on Thursday.

Asking for a political, not a military, solution to the stand-off over Ukraine, MEPs welcomed signs hinting at a stabilisation of the situation in the conflict areas.

‘MEPs welcome the newly-passed Ukrainian laws on a special status for the contested districts of Donetsk and Luhansk and the amnesty approved by the Ukrainian Parliament on 16 September as an important contribution to de-escalation.’

On Wednesday, according to Gazprom, Serbia said it will kickstart construction works of the local leg of the South Stream in October despite opposition from Brussels and political confusion over the project in Bulgaria.