European politicians and energy experts believe Nord Stream 2 will make Europe dependent on Russian gas Donald Trump may have used typically emotive – if premeditated – language from the outset at the Nato summit in Brussels to lambast Germany for its willingness to build a gas pipeline, but the US president’s view that this will make Europe deeply dependent on Russian gas is widely shared by European politicians, thinktanks and energy specialists, including some in Berlin. No country is more angry about the pipeline than Ukraine, the country Trump is supposedly set to abandon when he meets Vladimir Putin on Monday in Helsinki. Continue reading... |