Correspondent in Berlin
At 7 a.m. on Thursday, July 21, after ten days of maintenance work on the Nord Stream I gas pipeline, Russian gas started flowing again at the German pumping station in Lubmin. But relief in Europe at the news quickly turned to distrust of its main exporter. The quantities of gas put back into circulation on July 11 remain adequate, i.e. 40% of the supply capacity, to prepare for the insufficient winter. “What about tomorrow or the next day? Given the statements Cheese friesThere is nothing to raise an alarm about.” Klaus Müller, head of the German network agency, assessed.
As every year since its commissioning, in 2011, this 1,224-kilometer pipeline crossing the Baltic Sea was handed over to engineers for maintenance. But thanks to the war, this purely technical operation turned into a political confrontation…
Source: Le Figaro
