Turkish Stream more credible than critics say

Russia’s plan to build Turkish Stream, a strategic gas pipeline, is more credible than its critics say, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), has told EUobserver.

The project is designed to harm Ukraine, Russia’s adversary, by bypassing its gas transit network, and to reward Greece and Hungary, Moscow’s EU friends and Turkish Stream’s would-be hosts.

It has prompted ridicule by EU officials and by diplomats.

The EU energy commissioner, Maros Sefcovic, says it...