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Another piece to the puzzle:

On 3 April 2017, the Danish Energy Agency received Nord Stream 2 AG's application for permission to use a route parallel to Nord Stream 1, through the Danish maritime territory southeast of Bornholm. Then prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen declared six days later that "the current Danish regulatory framework does not allow, with a view to wider foreign policy considerations, to say "no" to the construction of transit pipelines in the maritime territory".

Nevertheless - or maybe exactly because of this lack of a national law that could prevent the construction of Nord Stream 2 - the application was then forwarded to the EU commission, and the Danish government publicly declared that it would let the commission decide. (At this point in time there was already a lot of international controversy about the Nord Stream pipe line, and the Danish government was presumably not willing to follow existing law and allow Nord Stream 2, and thus risk becoming the possible target of American and European retaliations - imho).

In November 2017 a new law was passed in the Danish parliament: "Proposal for an Act amending the Act on the continental shelf (Permit for certain pipeline installations in the maritime territory)". The "certain pipeline installations" referenced here would be the "Baltic Pipe" between Denmark and Poland (mentioned in this article), and of course Nord Stream 2.

Between 2017 and 2019 Nord Stream 2 AG made several applications to the Danish government, referring to different routes around the island of Bornholm. But in April 2019 the first application, concerning the route south of Bornholm, was renewed.

In June 2019 the liberal-conservative government lost the election, and was replaced by a social democratic government. And only four months later, on the 30. of October 2019, construction of Nord Stream 2 was suddenly given the green light.

https://ens.dk/en/press/permit-nord-stream-2-project-granted-danish-energy-agency

The official reasons given for the long delay in granting the permissions to lay down Nord Stream 2 was concerns for maritime ecology. Imho the same concerns must have applied to the Baltic Pipe line, which was a prestige project supported by both the former and the sitting Danish government. So in order to be able to allow Baltic Pipe, the government was forced to allow Nord Stream 2.

I am pretty sure that the new social democratic government under Mette Frederiksen - as well as the former liberal government under Løkke Rasmussen - was pressed by USA/EU to further delay Nord Stream 2, but the reasons given for such a delay - alleged concerns for the welfare of fish and other maritime beings in the Baltic Sea - couldn't be upheld in light of the pressure to issue permits to the Baltic Pipe prestige project. So instead of waiting for the EU Commission to decide the matter, the new Danish government allowed Nord Stream 2, so as to not further delay the Baltic Pipe (which already was plagued by concerns for the welfare of mice).

A more in-depth time line, as well as references to sources, can be found on the Danish Wikipedia page titled "Nord Stream"

https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream

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Thanks, very interesting!

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I'm not familiar with Deutch civilization, how does this work there? Are they allowed to print or say or the fact that actors within their own government were obviously complicit, or is that verboten like a swastika or nazi imagery? So instead of blaming german EU globalists acting within their own nation, they have to blame the people in ukraine the ones with german weapons, german money, and those swastikas? Are they allowed to think it? Like is them coming to the logical conclusion that america and the globalist schwabian eu cabal with full support of scholz and everyone he hangs with, purposefully acted to de-industrialize their own nation, allowed? Are they gagged and tackled and jailed once they have that thought or do they have to write it or state it publicly before that becomes a legal issue?

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