Merkel: No common ground on Nord Stream 2 with US

BERLIN, May 5 (PRIME) -- The Nord Stream 2 pipeline project is still an issue in relations between the U.S. and Europe as there is no common assessment of the project, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday during a congress.

“It is important that we continue exchanges on the issues of transatlantic partnership in the future, even on the issues that don’t possibly lead to common assessment. The topic of the Nord Stream 2 is one of these issues. It is important for me in this regard that we have common politics toward Ukraine here and that Ukraine remains an important partner in the issues of gas transit in the first place,” she said.

The Nord Stream-2 project envisages construction of two lines of a natural gas pipeline with an annual capacity of up to 55 billion cubic meters, running from the Russian shore to Germany under the Baltic Sea. Russian gas giant Gazprom builds the pipeline together with Germany’s Uniper and Wintershall Dea, Royal Dutch Shell, Austria’s OMV, and France’s Engie.

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