The South Stream “pipeline” and Bulgarian syntactical gynmastics – beyondbrics - Blogs - FT.com

The South Stream “pipeline” and Bulgarian syntactical gynmastics – beyondbrics - Blogs - FT.com:



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When is a pipeline not a pipeline? When it’s a highly-controversial Russian energy project that would cut Ukraine out of the European gas supply equation – at least according to Bulgaria’s parliament.



The EU member state is at loggerheads with the European Commission, the EU’s executive body, over the South Stream gas pipeline that would carry Russian gas from Bulgaria through Serbia to central Europe and Italy.





Since the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis, the EC has rallied against the Gazprom-led project, which would allow the Russian energy giant to supply its customers in Europe without sending exports through troublesome Ukraine. But Bulgaria, which stands to benefit both from improved energy security and from gas transit fees, has continued to back South Stream, including through a piece of legislative syntactical gymnastics that would be amusing were so much not at stake."



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