The cash-strapped and increasingly friendless Greek government on Friday signed a preliminary agreement with Russia on a €2 billion project that would build a pipeline through Greece to link up with the controversial Moscow-backed Turkish Stream scheme. Friday’s preliminary agreement came a day after Russia’s Gazprom and international energy companies Shell, E.ON, and OMV agreed to add two legs with an annual capacity of 55bcm to the Nord Stream pipeline, which ships Russian gas to Germany via the Baltic Sea.
What are Russia’s strategic aims with signing these pipeline deals? Politico Europe spoke about it with Sijbren de Jong. The full article can be read here.
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