German industrialists oppose politicizing Nord Stream-2 project

Executive Director of the German Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations Michael Harms said that German industrialists are in favor of making sure that the Nord Stream-2 project is not politicized.

"Nord Stream-2 will help compensate for the declining production rates in Europe. We reject any attempts to politicize the project," TASS cited him as saying.

The Nord Stream 2 pipeline is expected to come into service at the end of 2019. The 1,220-kilometer pipeline is set to run from the Russian coast along the Baltic Sea bed to the German shore. Each of the pipeline’s two stretches will have annual capacity of 27.5 billion cubic meters.