According to him, cited by Tagesschau, the refusal to complete the project will lead, in particular, to the loss of jobs, especially in the eastern part of Germany.

According to the head of the German gas association Zukunft Erdgas, Timm Koehler, in the event of a halt in construction, “investments in the amount of € 8 billion will have to be written off.”

Gas consumers will have to pay the costs of € 4 billion for the construction of interconnecting pipelines, which will subsequently not be used, he added.

Kohler did not rule out that this will also lead to an increase in gas prices in the EU due to a reduction in supplies.

Earlier, the vice-president of the German Bundestag, Wolfgang Kubicky, assessed the possibility of stopping the Nord Stream 2 project.