Russia and Germany are advancing with plans to build the North European Gas Pipeline(NEGP)beneath the Baltic Sea direct to Germany - even as controversy and uncertainty continue to dog the project.The Swiss-registered North European Gas Pipeline Co.,established to implement the project,last week confirmed the appointment of former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder as chairman of the shareholders committee.At its first official meeting,that committee appointed Matthias Wamig,Moscow head of the merchant arm of Germany's Dresdner Bank and a former East German intelligence agent,as managing director of the NEGP firm.
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