Germany tries to appease Poland on second Baltic pipeline

German vice chancellor Sigmar Gabriel on Friday sought to allay Poland's concerns over plans to build a second pipeline to pump Russian gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea. "We're taking Poland's concerns very seriously," said Gabriel, who is also Germany's economy minister, after meeting his Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki in Warsaw. Poland has claimed the Nordstream 2 pipeline undermines the European Union's strategic interests and violates competition rules, adding that revenue from the