Desc: Nord Stream 2 - Zerreißprobe für Europa: Directed by Denis Kliewer, Ulli Wendelmann. With Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, Peter Altmaier, Annalena Baerbock, Joe Biden. Launched in 2018, the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project will come to fruition in October 2021: the 1,230 kilometers of pipes built under the Baltic Sea are complete. Connecting the village of Bolshoi Kuziomkino in Russia to the city of Lubmin in Germany, the pipeline follows the route of its big brother, Nord Stream 1, which has been operating since 2012. Two months later, just as the pipeline was about to be inaugurated, Germany warns that the pipeline will not be approved if the escalation with Ukraine escalates. In February 2022, Europe's major gas supplier invaded its neighbor, and Chancellor Olaf Scholz halted the pipeline's certification process as part of the sanctions against Russia.