Serbia hosts South Stream ‘first welding’ ceremony

Serbia hosted a ceremony symbolically marking the beginning of work on South Stream, the Gazprom-favoured planned pipeline project, designed to bring Russian gas to the Balkans and to the EU, bypassing Ukraine.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Gazprom warns EU of winter 'catastrophe' http://www.europeansources.info/record/gazprom-warns-eu-of-winter-catastrophe/

ESO: Background information: Construction Formally Starts on South Stream Gas Pipeline http://www.europeansources.info/record/construction-formally-starts-on-south-stream-gas-pipeline/

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