WASHINGTON - The U.S. State Department this month told European companies which it suspects are helping to build Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline that they face the risk of sanctions as the outgoing Trump administration prepares a final round of punitive measures against the project, two sources said on Tuesday.
The U.S. source said the State Department is expected to issue a report by Thursday or Friday on companies it believes are helping the Russia-to-Germany pipeline. Companies that could be in the report include ones providing insurance, helping to lay the undersea pipeline, or verify the project’s construction equipment, the source said.Zurich Insurance Group could be listed in the report, the source said. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Gazprom halted Nord Stream 2 construction for a year after U.S. sanctions in December 2019. But work has resumed as Gazprom hopes to complete the Nord Stream 2 pipeline under the Baltic Sea to double the existing line’s capacity. The project is 90% completed with only a 62-mile stretch in deep waters off Denmark left to complete.
TimoGard DPsaledakis The US with time will have no more friends around the world - humiliation of dictatorship to sovereign states could leave your country lonely with time with no friends The EU member states have always been the US one and only true friend in the entire world. Why loose them
TimoGard DPsaledakis Sky is blue, if you collaborate with Russian antihuman regime - you only have sanctions. I think this is expected, as you separate resp for Moldova, Syria, Georgia, occupation of Crimea and war in east Ukraine.
TimoGard DPsaledakis That’s fair competition for you. Either you give us all your money and do nothing or you’re a terrorist.
TimoGard DPsaledakis The US States Department has no lessons to give currently. They are obeying a terrorist, they should be silenced
TimoGard DPsaledakis Everyday, America's real intentions are being laid bare, there are no allies unless you do what it wants when it wants. Feel sorry for countries like Germany which want tangible self determination being subjected to coercive economic statecraft by their 'so called ally'!!! EU
TimoGard DPsaledakis Let EU then impose a Big Tech taxation so those companies get compensated and Big Tech properly taxed.
TimoGard DPsaledakis Must appear to be busy
TimoGard DPsaledakis Fuck us and its sanctions!