Germany denies Nord Stream 2 pipeline waiver of EU rules
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's energy regulator on Friday declined to grant a waiver of European Union gas directives to the operators of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, dealing a fresh blow to the project to carry gas from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea.Nord Stream 2, designed by Russia's Gazprom to increase direct shipments to Europe, is already long behind schedule and has faced political opposition from Washington as well as from Ukraine and Poland, through whose territory Russian gas..