German region approves creation of fund to bypass US sanctions designed to stop Gazprom’s vital Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline

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The parliament of the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has voted to establish a fund to circumvent American sanctions preventing the construction of the Nord Stream 2, a gas pipeline that will connect Russia and Germany.

When completed, it will run from Russia’s Leningrad Region, bypassing the Baltic States and Poland, and arrive on Germany’s north-eastern Baltic Sea shore. The project has been constantly opposed by Washington, which somewhat preposterously claims that it is a threat to the energy security of Europe. Despite usually seeing eye-to-eye, this issue has caused intense disagreement between Berlin and Washington.

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