The previous project was easily approved by the Danish government, which was already headed by the liberal Lars Lykke Rasmussen.

Since then, the geopolitical situation in the region has changed, and Rasmussen, re-elected in 2014, believes that the “political side” of the gas pipeline can no longer be ignored.

The Danish authorities could only object to the environmental consequences of the project, but on December 1, 2018, deputies accepted an amendment that allows the foreign minister to veto any project on the continental shelf of Denmark if he believes that this threatens the country's interests in the diplomatic and defense sphere.

Since then, the case has been in the office of the head of Danish diplomacy that does not bother to answer, which is completely incomprehensible to the Nord Stream consortium.of effort to hinder the progress of the project. The new gas directive adopted by the EU tightened the regulation for Nord Stream 2, although it was unable to stop the construction of the pipeline.

The project also has another influential enemy – the United States, primarily Donald Trump, who criticized Angela Merkel at the NATO summit in the fall of 2018, in particular accusing Germany of depending on Russian gas.

Officially, Washington claims that it defends the interests of Ukraine and is struggling with Russian influence. The Congress even voted for the package of sanctions associated with the pipeline.

Nevertheless, the Americans almost do not hide the fact that they have a different goal: they hope to supply shale gas to Europe and compete with Moscow in this area.

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