energy strategy. for more insight on the story let's bring in terry boss he is a senior research fellow of the oxford institute for energy studies and he joins me from paris via skype good steady good to have you on the program now e.u. leaders are likely to agree on tougher rules for projects like north stream two under which circumstances and how would this regulation impact this project its reputation within this project if it comes to the project being in operation as you state the project is supposed to arrive at the end of the yeah so now days a race between sis regulation and this fight this regulations this new year would be grace and we did not in fact that are already in operation i mean one now let's say the ear legislation is fast enough and comes into effect by the end of the year how will it impact norseman to. it impacted in one way first which is that a guy from which his is the owner of the money printer in russia it is not under e.u. rule allowed to operate and to all in time so that when the if there would have to be a need of some and the looting as we say europe is just splitting off the pipes and new ones m

just bring us up to speed i'm joined now by the boss in your research fellow at the oxford institute for energy studies paris good to have you with us please enlighten us why is the project so controversial. i think when a guy has used to say to them it's very controversial because we have a division between the e.u. member states we have the division of the commission and that you parliament where again state and interesting enough the direction and gas from want to be there as fast as possible because if you build it as fast as possible or then what ever explained the changes to regulation is not going to happen i think it's a question of control. and speed of who is going to achieve. targets i.e. the new e.u. guest erected for the construction and operation of these new parts ok so it's something like a race against the clock but then we heard of this compromise that's been adopted what does this latest turn of events mean for the project but i think this is a testimony is that this fight is what about six i mean what we heard yesterday was that france was going to be in favor of these new e.u. dire