Nord Stream 1 must be stopped, according to German and French MEPs

• Stopping the flow of gas through the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline is one of the measures that the European Union may and should use to put an end to Russia’s war on Ukraine and ensure the inviolability of Ukrainian borders.
• MEPs from Germany and France stated this in comments to Guildhall.
• He added that Russia is selectively suspending gas supplies, including to Poland, Bulgaria, and the Netherlands.

Stopping the flow of gas through the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline is one of the measures that the European Union may and should use to put an end to Russia’s war on Ukraine and ensure the inviolability of Ukrainian borders. MEPs from Germany and France stated this in comments to Guildhall.

Michael Gahler, a member of the European Parliament from Germany and a member of the Christian Democratic Union, believes that the EU should not give the Russian Federation the initiative on stopping gas supplies because Russia has already suspended deliveries to a number of countries and that the EU should unilaterally stop the Russian Nord Stream 1 pipeline.

“There is a decision of the European Parliament (the call to the European Commission of April 7 to abandon Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 – ed.) and the European Parliament is very much in favor of that. And we have said we should stop Russian oil, gas, coal, and nuclear fuel supplies from Russia, and in a parallel resolution we explicitly referred also to Nord Stream 1 and I share this view also,” the MEP said.

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He added that Russia is selectively suspending gas supplies, including to Poland, Bulgaria, and the Netherlands. Russia seems to see this as a norm so the EU should not let Russia make the ultimate decision on whether they will supply gas, the MEP believes. This also applies to Nord Stream 1, and the legislator said he is “explicitly in favor of the closure of this pipeline.”

The German MEP responded affirmatively to the topic of whether the European Union should halt the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline before imposing an overall gas embargo.

“Yes, (…). We should not wait for Putin to take the lead – whether he does or not – but rather take the initiative ourselves “Michael Gahler summed it out nicely.

In turn, Member of the European Parliament Rafael Glucksman (France) believes that Nord Stream 1 was designed in anticipation of Russia’s hostile measures in Europe, as well as to enhance the EU’s dependence on Russia and shift away from transit via Ukraine and Belarus. The Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline should be shut down, and Europe should impose a total energy embargo on Russia, including on gas supply.

“According to me, yes, for sure, it should (be stopped – ed.) We should come to a complete gas embargo in the event of a stop (Nord Stream 1 – ed.) and we should never come back to it,” said the French MEP.

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