faces a split in views over the project during the 2 day summit in brussels the alliance's chief ian stoltenberg admitted that the issue was top of the discussions but that a common standpoint was yet to be reached we did stress that it was an appropriate platform to discuss this type of plan russia's foreign ministry in turn has questioned nato's motives. nato doesn't have a common view on north stream too but why does the military organization have to take a common standpoint toller it's a business project between 2 independent states maybe their alliance has plans to invest costing just over $9000000000.00 euros the north stream to project is already more than 95 percent complete it will allow russian gas to flow directly into germany under the baltic sea it could also be used to bypass existing pipeline to take gas through ukraine which would cost a valuable transit fees german journalist thomas fassbender says nato may be turning into a geo political tool for washington to dominate europe. well there is general in knowledge meant that pipelines gas oil pipelines are offered geopolitical as