European energy companies have demanded the US abandon an “unacceptable” threat of sanctions against a proposed Russian gas pipeline to Europe that has become one of the EU’s biggest corporate and political battlegrounds.
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Financial Times: EU energy groups criticise US threats to Nord Stream
Russian gas giant Gazprom's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Alexei Miller (front L) and Chief Executive of French multinational electric utility company Engie Isabelle Kocher (front R) speak together as they are flanked by the Head of the supervisory board of Gazprom's Nord Stream 2 and former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (rear R) during a signing ceremony for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline agreement, in Paris, on April 24.
