Earlier this week, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling for the stopping of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which the document claimed boosts the EU's dependence on Russian gas supplies and threatens the bloc's energy security.

Axar.az reports citing Newsweek.

Manfred Weber, member of the European Parliament from Germany and a candidate to head the European Commission, pledged to move heaven and earth to halt the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

Weber insisted that the project runs counter to the “interests of the European Union which is why we should block it”.

“We already have all the tools for this, I mean the gas and energy directive”, he added, in an apparent nod to amendments to the EU Gas Directive stipulating that not only the European Commission, but also a committee of representatives from all EU countries will have to give consent to exempt the project from EU norms.

Despite Russia’s repeated calls not to politicise the project’s implementation, the European Parliament passed earlier this week a resolution to stop the Nord Stream 2 project which allegedly bolsters the EU's dependence on Russian gas supplies and threatens the bloc's “strategic interests”.