12/13 German officials say they had hoped to use Nord Stream’s expected demise as a bargaining chip in talks with Poland, /which is dead set against the pipeline. In exchange for backing away from Nord Stream, Berlin wanted Warsaw to drop demands that Germany pay war reparations./
allowed Nord Stream 2/EC wants the new rules to be introduced before the end of2018–early enough to apply them to the Nord Stream , which should be completed by the end of next year. It must be noted that the Parliament of Denmark has already begun to discuss a new law proposed by the government