VILNIUS (Sputnik) — On Wednesday, Western media reported that eight EU members signed an anti-Nord Stream-2 letter addressed to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
"It is unfortunate that our big partners are trying to explain the EU member states that it is only a private commercial project. We all are well aware that all the energy projects of this scale are geopolitical, and their goals are exactly geopolitical. Therefore, such a letter was signed by eight leaders, including myself," Grybauskaite told the Lithuanian LRT broadcaster in an interview.
According to the president, the original Nord Stream pipeline is not used at full capacity, therefore the Nord Stream-2 has no purpose and is a politicized project aimed at bypassing Ukraine and several eastern EU countries.
In late 2015, nine Central and Eastern European countries, led by Poland and Slovakia, sent a letter to European Council President Donald Tusk asking him to block the Nord Stream-2 construction due to energy security concerns. In response, the European Commission said its stance on the gas pipeline remained positive.
The Nord Stream-2 project, which will follow 86-percent of the original Nord Stream route, is expected to provide up to 55 billion cubic meters of direct gas supplies annually to European customers.
