Russia Hints Extra Gas Supply To Europe Hinges On Nord Stream 2 Approval

Russia’s gas giant Gazprom is in no hurry to supply additional volumes to alleviate Europe’s gas crisis, unless the European Union (EU) and Germany grant operational license to the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, sources close to the Kremlin and Gazprom told Bloomberg. “We cannot ride to the rescue just to compensate for mistakes that we didn’t commit,” Konstantin Kosachyov, one of the key pro-Kremlin legislators in Russia’s Parliament, told Bloomberg in an interview published on Tuesday, without…