New Europe: Now or never for Ukraine's pipelines
Sep 6, 2010 at 06:09Even though the Nord Stream gas pipeline, which aims to bring Siberian gas directly to Germany under the Baltic Sea bypassing Ukraine, makes Kiev uneasy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych pledged to work together to modernize transit gas pipelines in the former Soviet republic, a move that could make other future bypasses like South Stream and Nabucco unnecessary and ensure uninterrupted Russian gas supplies to the EU. Read the story here.