France is set to challenge a controversial gas pipeline project between Germany and Russia in the first sign of a rift between Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel.
Less than a month after the French and German leaders signed a new friendship treaty and pledged closer cooperation to great fanfare, France announced on Thursday that it is backing a bid to bring Germany’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline under EU regulations.
The move puts Mr Macron’s government on a collision course with Germany, which has been trying to prevent the move in Brussels.
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Nord Stream 2, which will carry gas direct from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea, has long been a point of contention between Germany and its allies, and…
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