US threatens Western companies with sanctions for Nord Stream 2 :: Investor.bg

<img src = "https://www.investor.bg/images/photos/0264/0000264540-article3.jpg" alt = "The American administration of Donald Trump has reiterated his warning to Western companies European investors investing in the Russian pipeline, North Stream 2, that they risk being sanctioned (19659004) Five Western companies have already invested in Nord Stream 2 – the German Wintershall and Uniper, the l '. Austrian OMW, Anglo-Dutch Shell Shell and French Engie, according to Washington, DC

At the end of June, the project company responsible for the construction of the pipeline stated that it had raised half of the funds needed. [19659003] "We have made it clear that companies working in the field of Russian energy exports are bound by an activity that will result in sanctions," said a spokesman for the state department at the gas agency. in Europe will reduce energy security geopolitics and the overall stability of the region, giving Russia another weapon to influence European countries, especially Ukraine. Russia understands that this project divides Europe and uses it as a way to take over the countries of the Old Continent ", is the US position on the project.

Wednesday, the US President Donald Trump accuses Germany allowing them to be captured by Russia because of their energy dependence and the support of Chancellor Angela Merkel to double the capacity of the Nord Stream gas pipeline pbading through the sea Baltic for Germany bypbading the traditional route through Ukraine