Nord Stream 2: Ukrainian MPs send open letter to Merkel

“In an open letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel last week, 20 members of the Ukrainian parliament have criticized the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline project and backed an earlier protest letter signed by nearly 70 MEPs and over 20 EU member state MPs sent to the Chancellor earlier this month. This latest letter called for changes to German government policy relating to the pipeline project and deplored the "deep rift between EU member states" that the government had allowed by backing the Kremlin project,” reads the report posted on the company’s website.

The Ukrainian MPs in their letter stressed the negative consequences, both for Ukraine and for the European Union as a whole, of the Nord Stream 2 project. They also noted that the decision for Nord Stream 2 was apparently made without regard to the wider European context and added that “only a few will benefit from the project, while at the same time it will have wide-ranging detrimental economic effects and fuel political corruption.”

The full text of the letter is posted on the website of the Verkhovna Rada.

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