Source: Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA)- 2nd Quarter 2017

Author: Mr. Wolfgang Ischinger, Germany’s Ambassador to the U.S., 2001-06, and Chairman of the Munich Security Conference since 2008.

Europe is the biggest importer of natural gas in the world, and the European Union sees natural gas as the key contributor to its transition to a lower carbon world over the next two decades. Russia currently provides about a third of Europe’s gas.

1. The legislation interferes with Constitutionally derived executive power : The current legislation seeks not only to impose sanctions that have been proposed by Congress rather than the Executive, but the bill would force Trump and ostensibly any successor in the White House to go through Congress in order to repeal the sanctions. In this sense, the legislation grants the Legislature powers which are generally a prerogative of the Executive branch. 

The 1,220-kilometer Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, with a total capacity of 55 billion cubic meters a year, will provide a direct link between reliable Russian gas reserves and European gas consumers from the coast of Russia via the Baltic Sea to Greifswald, Germany. Construction work will begin in 2018 and will be completed by the end of 2019.

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The current situation in the U.S. Foreign Service is the result of many important posts remaining unfilled six months into Trump’s administration. That’s create a vacuum in the carrying out of U.S. foreign policy that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is struggling to deal with. Some of this problem is due to congressional Democrats’ slow-walking all presidential appointments and jamming up the confirmation process. But at the same time it’s tough for anyone Republicans or Democrats to confirm a nominee who hasn’t been nominated.

AGE Platform Europe is a European network of around 165 organisations of and for people aged 50+  representing directly over 30 million older people in Europe.

Germany is the preferred destination for operations moving from the UK, followed by the Netherlands, France, Italy and Spain. A second cluster of countries in Central and Eastern Europe are also favored by UK companies looking for alternative locations.

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