Plans to lease a port on the Swedish island of Gotland to a Russian-backed gas pipeline project are set to be cancelled over security fears. Ministers and military leaders in Sweden leaned on the council of the Baltic Sea island at a crisis meeting on Tuesday over the application by the Nord Stream 2 consortium. The government has been alarmed by increasing Russian air and sea activity and in September installed a garrison of 150 troops on Gotland, which was heavily defended during the Cold War. This decision is going to slow down the construction of the pipeline. It probably will not be finished in 2019, as previously planned.
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