The Fight for Nord Stream 2: The Interests of all the Players Involved

... first part involves putting pressure on the project via third parties – the main conduit of the U.S. energy policy in Europe is Poland. Warsaw has been a staunch critic of both Nord Stream 2 and Gazprom, and its arguments are politically motivated. Poland threw the first spoke in the wheel of the Russian project in 2016, when Gazprom was counting on selling 10 per cent of its shares in the Nord Stream 2 operator, Nord Stream 2 AG , to five companies – ENGIE, OMV, Royal Dutch Shell, Uniper and Wintershall . In order for the deal to go through, permission had to be obtained ...