The sanctions target contractors working to lay pipes for Nord Stream 2 --a 10-billion-euro ($11-billion) project expected to be completed in early 2020 -- and another Russian gas project, TurkStream. However, Nord Stream 2 said in reaction to the statement from Allseas that it would continue to work until the pipeline was finished. An EU spokesman said the bloc was opposed "as a matter of principle to the imposition of sanctions against European companies engaged in legal activities". "They will hit German and European companies and constitute an interference in our internal affairs," she said. READ ALSO: Germany goes ahead with gas pipeline despite US protests

Source: The Local December 22, 2019 09:22 UTC