Germany’s Federal Network Agency is making its decision on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project without taking political considerations into account, because it is a commercial project, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told reporters on Friday at a joint news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron.
"As far as the Nord Stream-2 pipeline is concerned, it is a project that drew private investment, and its implementation has reached the point when the pipeline is already in place," he said. "The German agency is making its decision on the matter leaving politics aside."
In his words, the procedure envisages "numerous consultations." "The process is under way. There is a different question as well: what can we do to keep Ukraine’s territorial integrity? Germany feels great responsibility for keeping Ukraine’s status of a transit country," he said.
