The lead candidate for Europe's conservative bloc in next month's EU elections has said he would try to stop the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline if he becomes European Commission president, according to an interview published Tuesday.
"I am against the Nord Stream 2 project. It will increase the dependence of the EU on Russian gas and not decrease it. And we need more independence not dependence on Russian gas," Manfred Weber of the EPP told Polish newspaper Polska The Times.
"That's why, as the president of the Commission, I will use all legal instruments available and check all the opportunities to stop NS2," the German said of the pipeline spearheaded by Russia's gas giant Gazprom.
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