EU Doesn't Expect Russia To Restart Nord Stream Flows As Planned

The European Union is bracing for the possibility that Russia will not resume natural gas deliveries to Europe via Nord Stream as planned—right after the regular maintenance on the pipeline ends on July 21, a European Commissioner told The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. “We’re working on the assumption that it doesn’t return to operation,” Johannes Hahn, the Commissioner for Budget and Administration, said on the sidelines of a conference in Singapore. Nord Stream, the key pipeline carrying gas from Russia to Germany,…