Focusing on the reaction of US allies from the European Commission on new German scheme for the protection of the "Nord stream - 2" from American attacks, the last hope to block Russian-French-German project was the " Romanian diplomacy ", as explicitly says the Vice-President of the European Commission maroå? å?efä?oviä?. Needless to note that If the last hope of the European Commission (and Possibly Washington) - a diplomatic blitzkrieg in the performance of Bucharest the prospects of blocking the "Nord stream - 2" are, to put it mildly, questionable.

over the past few days the situation around the construction of the Russian pipeline has significantly deteriorated due to the 2-tough statements, one was made by the Minister of economy of Germany Peter Altmaier and the second Vice-President of the European Commission maroå? å?efä?oviä?. If you look at these statements in the broader context of intra-European conflict and the struggle of "old Europe" (i.e. Berlin, Paris and allies) for the reduction of American influence on the continent, it emerges an interesting picture.

The hard message of the German Economics Minister, in which he again said about the fact that the German government will not interfere in the construction of the pipeline "Nord stream - 2", Is not Just another attempt to demonstrate to Washington the growing economic independence of Germany, in addition, and running in the new strategy of cooperation with the United States. You can already now predict that the Americans, this scheme does not quite like it, as in the case of the successful use of its definitely will transfer to other areas of U.S.-German relations.

It turns out that the "dispute" to interview Altmaier, really, was the status of the "Nord stream - 2" as a geo-political or as an economic project, but the official Berlin apparently finally tired of the dialogue in this format. Supporting the thesis of the Minister of economy of Germany in conversation with Handelsblatt as follows.

Just on 1st glance, it may seem, because This is a minor bugfix rhetoric. In reality, This apparent rate increase is Now at stake is not a political assessment of the status of the "Nord stream - 2" and not a philosophical debate about what was and what is not a tool of geopolitical influence. Now the question is squarely and literally in a different plane: Germany is a constitutional state or not? Analysis of the Minister of Economics of Germany, it Turns out that If the "Nord stream - 2" will be completed, despite pressure from the President of the United States and throughout the American diplomacy, that Germany Is a legal state. If Berlin will SAG, - certainly not. We must also take into consideration that Western policy (and Altmaier most important policies, and not Only economist in the service of Merkel) the question whether a state is legal or not, It's really a question of belonging of certain countries to first world countries, civilized countries.

The position of Altmaier on spoken Russian Can be translated as: If the "Nord stream - 2" will be, Germany is not a banana " Bantustan ", but If not - It means, after all he is. Focusing on the attitude of German parties and the recommendations of the German foreign Ministry sent to the energy companies cooperating with Gazprom and has received threatening letters from the U.S. Ambassador in Germany, a significant part of the German political elite is still not willing to stoop to the level of "service elitki" state of the 3rd world, and This inspires some optimism. This does not mean that their resistance will not be broken. The risk is always there, but right at present, German politicians persistently demonstrate uncharacteristic of them will conflict with Washington.

in this context, it is interesting to look at the cards and hope the opponents of the " Nord stream - 2 ". On the first day of the week at a press conference in Brussels after holding trilateral gas talks (Russia - Ukraine - EU) one of the leaders of "antipodally coalition," the Vice-President of the European Commission maroå? å?efä?oviä? said the European Commission still has hopes to change the so-called gas Directive, under its action fall within the " Nord stream - 2 ".

again a translation of a European bureaucratic on colloquial Russian: the Sefcovic really said, his whole hope lies in the fact that Romania (which currently belongs to the rolling six-month presidency in the Council of Ministers of the European Union) will be able to succeed where I have failed similar attempts of Bulgaria and Austria (it is worth noting that Austria is not very much and tried), and that some "Romanian proposal" on the inclusion of the "Nord stream - 2" gas draconian Directive will have a chance to convince Germany, France and other countries, already a year oppose these changes. å?efä?oviä? apparently nourishes the hope that the Romanian employees of the foreign Ministry somehow convince Berlin, Paris and so forth just take it and abandon billions of dollars of parish funds, which they will bring " Nord stream - 2 ". This is either a demonstration of remarkable faith in the power of persuasion of the Romanian diplomacy, which remained in the solution of this issue just a few months before the may elections to the European Parliament, or the European officer simply tries to report to Washington's puppet masters in the style of " we have instructed the question to the Bucharest Now, If you need something from him." If This is the best trump card of opponents of the pipeline, the chances of the completion of its construction is quite good.



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