“And what is self-interest?
The Germans get gas more expensive than they could get if there was Nord Stream 2.
So the Germans definitely have no economic sense to delay, ”the expert noted.
At the same time, he added that Gazprom is also not interested in "delaying" the opening of the project.
After all, Gazprom has also repeatedly said that it is not a direct beneficiary of prices of $ 1000, because for it the higher the price, the less consumers are ready to consume at that price.
For him, after all, the normal level of prices in European markets is $ 300, but $ 500 is already too high a price, and $ 1000 is prohibitive, so Gazprom is not interested in ultra-high prices.
And most importantly, what he sells in contracts where there is a tie to both the oil basket and the spot one, that is, if you set the average price of gas sales abroad, it is very different from what we see on European spot markets ", - concluded the interlocutor of RT.
Earlier, Zemlyansky wrote in an article for Glavred that Russia and Germany are deliberately "delaying" the opening of the gas pipeline.
He claims that this situation on the gas market in Europe "suits" Gazprom.