From a foreign policy point of view, the completion of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline has strengthened Russia's geo-economic and geopolitical influence on Germany and the EU for the time being and only made the Kremlin the winner.
Germany may benefit economically by becoming the largest gas hub in Europe - but at the expense of EU political solidarity and the common EU energy policy, which Germany has sacrificed in favor of its bilateral energy partnership with Russia. The foreign policy collateral damage is enormous for Germany, since Berlin does not exemplify political solidarity in the EU but, as the largest member state, violates it. But whether the Kremlin's political victory is really sustainable remains open in the medium and long term.
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