MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak on Wednesday accused the United States of threatening Europe with a rise in duties on its cars in order to try to sabotage Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project to Germany.
“It’s no secret the Americans are proposing, essentially blackmailing, threatening to introduce … duties on the supply of European cars,” he said at an energy conference in Moscow.
Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; writing by Tom Balmforth; editing by Maria Kiselyova
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