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& quot; The North Stream-2 “proved to be a geopolitical mistake for Berlin,” said Robert Habek, Germany's vice chancellor and minister for economics and climate protection. He said all EU countries had always opposed the construction of the pipeline. With the exception of Germany and Austria. > Now that the pipeline is under construction, but it is not yet clear whether it will be able to start working, Habek said in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that this issue must be decided in accordance with European and national legislation.
According to the German Minister Nord Stream 2 must comply with the so-called unbundling rule, which means that resource companies are not allowed to transport them, but this rule has not been followed for the Russian oil pipeline.
Habek claims that under the old German government political pressure to resolve Nord Stream 2. However, it has not yet been put into operation.
Habek himself is a representative of the Soyuz-90/Green Party and has always been against the project.
German Finance Minister Christian Lindner has said before to delay the start-up of the Nord Stream pipeline. He called it not a political but a legal problem.
The German Federal Network Agency had previously announced that the decision on Joint Undertaking-2 would not be made until mid-next year. Agency chief Jozen Homann noted that the ministry had not yet received documents needed to continue motorway certification, which will continue once the channel operator provides them.