Bild: Germany will check the disclosure of state secrets during the planning of Nord Stream 2. In January 2018, the Mining Department of the city of Stralsund in the north of the country published a planning permit for the pipeline on its website.

According to the newspaper, page 556 of the document contained information from the German Ministry of Defense classified as “secret, for official use only” This was, in particular, information about the areas of operation of NATO submarines.