so far rejected the european commission's proposals russia hopes nord stream 2 will soon give it a direct route to gas markets in western europe while freezing out here crane. straits our correspondent. in brussels who's following those talks about what is your up trying to gain there with these talks europe in particular. main goal of the e.u. is of course security of supply for europe itself do you does not want any disruption of supplies from russia 10 years ago you experience a short disruptions of 4 weeks but also you have to say that the gas storage facilities investor new yorkers are completely full right now so europe could bridge a disruption of about 2 or 3 months quite easily why is europe so depended on russian gas in the 1st place where that's dependent on