Projected Russian gas pipeline opens rifts in Central Europe

The fate of a projected new gas pipeline link last week sparked a rift
between the Czech Republic on one side and Slovakia and a series of
Prague’s Central European partners on the other. The view from Bratislava
is that the extension of the pipeline under the Baltic is a German-Russian
plot to sideline Ukraine while at the same time damaging Slovakia and the
European Union. We put the controversial project under the spotlight in
this week’s Marketpalace.