Lithuania gives cold shoulder to Nord Stream

Report of a press briefing in the European Parliament on the 26 August 2009 at which Dalia Grybauskaite, President of Lithuania (and a European Commissioner from 2004-2009) and European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek (and a former Prime Minister of Poland) spoke on energy issues. Both indicated a degree of hostility towards the Nord Stream gas pipeline project, which is designed to bring Russian gas directly to Germany, bypassing Ukraine.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: The North-European Gas Pipeline (NEGP) http://www.europeansources.info/record/website-nord-stream/

ESO: Background information: Europe's pipeline politics http://www.europeansources.info/record/europes-pipeline-politics/

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