The European Commission continues to dig under Russian pipelines

Rules igry11-09-2007 By 2015, two branches of the North-European gas pipeline, which will hold from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea with a total capacity of 55 billion cubic meters of gas a year, will provide not less than 25% of the needs of the EU additional gas imports. However, the project SEG, implementation of which is expected in Europe, previously exposed to obstruction by pro-US lobby in the EU, in particular the Baltic countries. Earlier, the nationalist forces of Estonia, which should allow the operator to SEG research project in their part of the Baltic until September 30, all the forces prevented the development of the project. However, the core EU countries, represented by France, Italy and, especially, has about 50% of the project SEG Germany fully supports this project, it is extremely important for Europe, and repeatedly called "narrow-minded nationalistic interests aside, get rid of this [anti-Russian] trends" in EU ". Estonia is close to common sense: these days even the director of the Institute for Foreign Policy of Estonia Andres Kazekamp advised the Government to allow study of SEG in the Estonian economic zone. "We should not forget about the interests of its European allies" - he stressed.