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At the two-day summit of EU heads of state once again in the three months to debate the Nord Stream 2, which the Baltic Sea is flowing Russian gas to Germany.

– European Union can not turn a blind eye to the next gigantic attempt to divide Europe and its repeated dependence on one, the Russian energy sources – said on Thursday morning on the radio Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite. On the eve launched on Thursday EU summit Reuters revealed that Grybauskaite and Prime Ministers of the Visegrad Group (the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary) as well as Estonia, Latvia and Romania, in a letter to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker protested against plans to build the Nord Stream 2.

the risk for safety

Agreement on the establishment of the company to implement this project in September last year, Gazprom signed an agreement with German companies BASF and E.ON, Austrian OMV, French Engi and Anglo-Dutch Shell. The company Gazprom has 50 percent. shares and partners – 10 percent. Consisting of two strands Nord Stream 2 is sent to Germany, 55 billion cubic meters. of gas per year, as much as completed by the end of 2012. first Nord Stream. If the rise of these new pipes, the system of gas pipelines through the Baltic Sea, Gazprom could send to Germany for a total of 110 billion cubic meters. of gas a year.

Budowa both threads Nord Stream 2 is to begin in two years and end in 2019. – announced the consortium, selecting suppliers of pipes for this project, which cost the Russians estimated at nearly 8 billion euros. In a letter to the head of the European Commission leaders of eight EU countries warned: ” the Nord Stream project 2 carries risks for energy security in the region of Central and Eastern Europe. Would have a significant impact on development in the region of the gas market and the structure of the gas transit, particularly transit routes through Ukraine. “

can suspend transit through Poland

After the construction of a new gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea, Russia could drastically reduce or even suspend gas exports to Western Europe transit gas pipelines through Ukraine and Poland.

Protest against the Baltic pipe joined the State of the Union Central Europe at the end of last year. Then, about the debate on Nord Stream 2 at the EU summit requested the ministers of energy of the same eight EU countries whose prime ministers signed now another protest against this investment, and in addition – the prime ministers of the Visegrad Group countries. They indicated that Nord Stream project 2 is contrary to the principles of the union of Europe’s energy and strategy of the EU’s energy security, which need to diversify sources of energy supply and reduce Europe’s dependence on gas imports from Russia.

doubts also has the European Commission

doubts to the project does not hide a part of the representatives of the European Commission. “The development of Nord Stream would increase the EU’s dependence on a single supplier and does not serve to diversify. On one tour would focus 80 percent. Russian exports, increasing dependence on the German market for gas from Russia from 30 to 60 percent.” – Repeats since October last year, EU Commissioner. Climate and Energy Miguel Arias Canete.

Also, European Council President Donald Tusk said bluntly: “The strategy of energy security (…) for the whole of Europe should be properly excluded this type projects like Nord Stream 2, because the intention is to become independent from the dominant gas supplier to diversify. ” Central European countries can renew protest against Nord Stream 2, because at the last EU summit was wystrychnięte for a fool. At the last moment with a summary of the summit under pressure from Germany removed a provision that the new gas pipelines in the EU must comply with European rules and principles of union energy and energy security strategy.

This policy meets included on the list of priority investments of the EU project undersea gas pipeline Baltic Pipe, which through Denmark can flow gas from Norway to Polish and from us to the Baltic States, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania. On Tuesday our company for gas Gaz-System has concluded with Energinet.dk, the Danish manager pipeline, an agreement on the preparation for the end of 2016. Study the construction of connections, which the Polish can flow from Norwegian fields 7-10 billion cubic meters. of gas per year.