Just 40 years ago, the Euro-Siberian gas pipeline project sowed discord in NATO.
Following the martial law imposed on Poland by General Jaruzelski at the end of 1981, Ronald Reagan unsheathed against the USSR in June 1982 the weapon of economic sanctions, including extraterritorial ones.
American companies, and European companies using American technologies, were prohibited from supplying the equipment necessary for the construction of the first gas pipeline intended to transport Soviet gas to Western Europe.
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The American initiative unleashed the fury of the Europeans, determined to carry out this simple "
commercial project
", "
in the traditional current of the exchanges which must contribute to the maintenance of peaceful relations, especially on the territory of Europe
", explained to the Francois Mitterrand press.
French President Helmut Schmidt and even Margaret Thatcher rebelled against Reagan.
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