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Greek gas grid operator DESFA is of major strategic importance for the broader natural gas market, as its network runs along the Southern Gas Corridor to the heart of the European Union, where most new routes bringing the commodity to central European markets will pass, Marco Alvera tells Kathimerini.

The pipe installation for Nord Stream 2 began in German Lubmin in Bay of Greifswald, as Detsche Welle reported.

According to the news agency, the laybarge Castro 10 began the works at the ground expansion station on the night of July 25.

The strategic interest of Italian gas infrastructure company Snam in the Greek gas network was confirmed on Monday with the opening of the improved financial offers for the acquisition of 66 percent of gas grid operator DESFA.

German authorities have endorsed the construction of the new gas pipeline from Russia to the bottom of the Baltic Sea North Stream 2, Turkish Daily Sabah writes, quoted by Focus.

Germany has approved the construction and operation of the Russia-built Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, its operator and the German maritime authority said on March 27.

Polish counterintelligence AWB reported on arresting a Polish official on suspicion of working for Russian intelligence services.

According to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, the planned Russian-German gas pipeline North Stream-2 could trigger a Russian-Ukrainian war, EUObserver reports, quoted by Focus News Agency.

MOSCOW - The Gazprom board of directors will at a February 13 meeting consider the option to purchase an additional stake in the South Stream Serbia company, the Russian energy giant announced on Monday.

According to the Russian news agency Tass, one of the items on the agenda is "purchase of additional shares of South Stream Serbia by Gazprom."

The deadline for the submission of binding offers for the 66 percent controlling stake in gas grid operator DESFA has been put off from December 22 to January 2018.

State sell-off fund TAIPED accepted a request to that effect submitted by candidate investors last week, as they want more time to prepare their offers.

Denmark passed a law on Thursday that could allow it to ban Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from going through its waters, Reuters reported.