Various diplomats appear to be questioning the supposed competition between the Nabucco and the South Stream natural gas pipelines. In fact, Russia and Turkey are collaborating to block the full implementation of the EU’s Southern Corridor energy strategy so as to assert a duopoly over natural gas supplies to Europe.

The White Stream project would provide natural gas from the Caspian Sea basin with a route to Europe that passes neither through Russia nor Turkey. The gas would go across Azerbaijan and Georgia to Supsa, then under the Black Sea to Constanta, Romania, and from there directly to other EU members.

By Robert M Cutler for ISN Security Watch

Read more on http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/

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