A decade-long, $11bn effort to take gas 1,200km from Russia to Europe ends abruptly at the German coastal village of Lubmin, population: 2,041.
The Kremlin-backed Nord Stream 2 pipeline was suspended last month as part of international sanctions against Russia, before the gas even started flowing. Now the giant tubes that emerge from the Baltic Sea at Lubmin’s northern port have become a curiosity — the metal coils photographed and gawped at by passers-by.
Once hailed for bringing employment to Mecklenburg Vorpommern, one of Germany’s poorest states, Nord Stream 2 has become an embarrassment.
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