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Saturday, 20.04.2024, 05:33
EU issued its assessment of the Commission's request for a negotiation mandate in Nord Stream 2
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According to a document that was published by the media last week, the Legal Service rejected the Commission's reasoning for the mandate. The Commission's notion of a "legal void" around Nord Stream 2 is unfounded and there is no legal need for an agreement between the EU and Russia.
Approval of the Commission's request for a mandate would require unanimous agreement of all member states. The legal opinion even concludes that it is "evident that the opening of alternative routes with augmented capacity would increase the (…) resilience of the Union's external supply networks" and it states that it is "at the very least counter intuitive" to claim that such a pipeline "might increase the Union's dependence on its external energy providers."
Energy counsellors are scheduled to continue their discussions on 12 October.
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