Beata Szydło: Nine countries against Nord Stream II

On March 18 in Brussels, the Prime Minister of Poland Beata Szydło confirmed the signing of a letter addressed to the head of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, by nine countries. The Visegrad Group (Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia) along with Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania and Croatia, have protested against Nord Stream II, arguing it "threatens the investments outside EU standards." "In the letter we note that the European Commission applied rules that apply in the EU in relation to the investment. We draw attention to the fact that this is not an investment that has an economic dimension. It is a threat to energy security in Europe," Beata Szydło claimed. Nord Stream is an offshore natural gas pipeline (two parallel lines) from Vyborg (the Russian Federation) to Greifswald (Germany) that is owned and operated by Nord Stream AG.