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Warsaw fears the new pipe will make it easier for Moscow to cut off its energy supplies (Photo: Gazprom)

Poland compares German-Russian pipeline to Nazi-Soviet pact

The Polish defence minister has compared a planned German-Russian gas pipeline to the 1939 Hitler-Stalin deal partitioning Poland, with EU energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs also criticising the gas project.

The 1,200 km pipeline is currently under construction and will link Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea, bypassing states which maintain problematic ties with Moscow such as Poland, the Baltic states and Ukraine.

The project, agreed by former German chancellor Gerhard Sc...

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Warsaw fears the new pipe will make it easier for Moscow to cut off its energy supplies (Photo: Gazprom)

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