New EU measures threaten to complicate Nord Stream pipeline

BERLIN (AP) — France and Germany have buried the hatchet over differences on new European rules that could complicate plans for a gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, agreeing a compromise that would regulate but not threaten the politically sensitive project.
Ambassadors of EU countries meeting in Brussels on Friday gave the go-ahead to a tweaked proposal that sets the scene for negotiations with European Parliament and European Commission on extending the bloc’s rules regulating ga