energy legislation.
This was announced by German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock.
– Now, with this state of affairs, this pipeline cannot be approved. This is due to the fact that the requirements of the European energy legislation are not complied with, and security issues remain open, she explained.
Annalena Berbock added that Ukraine's sovereignty is the basis for any action by the European Union.
Recently, the Secretary of State of the United States of America Anthony Blinken said that in the event of a full-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine, the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline will never work.
According to him, the commissioning has recently the completed pipeline is one of the levers of influence on the Kremlin.
Meanwhile, on November 16, the German Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) suspended the certification procedure for Nord Stream 2 AG, which is the operator of the Russian gas pipeline Nord Stream 2.
As noted in the statement of the German regulator, the operator Nord Stream 2 AG now does not have the organizational structure that would comply with the laws of F RG.
