The US works with the Danish authorities to stop the development of the largest energy project between Russia and the EU. This is the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which must link the energy infrastructures between the producer and the community consumers, avoiding intermediary countries.
The revelation came out of the Assistant Secretary of State, Aaron Wess Mitchell, just after Danish lawmakers approved on November 30 a law that allows veto the passage of the pipeline through the territorial waters of the kingdom.
"Given that Nord Stream 2 would cross Danish waters, this is a potentially significant political and legal obstacle that could really delay the progress of the pipeline (...) This project is not in the interest of Europe, it is not of our interest," he testified. Mitchell before the US Senate's subcommittee on foreign relations.
The senior official stressed that the obstruction of the project is part of a long-term US policy. However, according to the manager of Nord Stream 2 AG, Serguéi Serdiukov, revealed in October, in the case of the departure of Denmark from the project, an alternative route has been developed avoiding its territorial waters.
The second branch of the Nord Stream gas pipeline will connect the Russian and German pipelines along the Baltic Sea bottom. In this way it is intended to prevent the passage of gas by intermediate countries such as Ukraine, Belarus or Poland.