Millions of UK households are set to experience a sharp rise of more than 50 percent in their gas and electricity bills in April...

© Getty Images / iantfoto Russia could be disconnected from SWIFT and Nord Stream 2, says senior Eurocrat The EU is discussing the possibility of excluding Russia from the SWIFT international bank payment system and completely putting a halt on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline if Moscow launches an invasion of Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has revealed...

In this file photo taken on September 07, 2020 a road sign directs traffic towards the Nord Stream 2 gas line landfall facility entrance in Lubmin, north eastern Germany...

FILE PHOTO: The logo of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project is seen on a pipe at the Chelyabinsk pipe rolling plant in Chelyabinsk, Russia...

Annalena Baerbock and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attend a final televised debate on September 23, 2021 in Berlin...

FILE PHOTO. Yuriy Vitrenko. © Reuters / GLEB GARANICH Kiev has a plan to obstruct the launch of the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which will bring gas from Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea, a top Ukrainian energy executive has claimed...

Pipe-laying vessel Akademik Cherskiy owned by Gazprom, which Russia has selected to use to complete construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, is seen in a bay near the Baltic Sea port of Baltiysk, Kaliningrad region, Russia May 3, 2020...

FILE PHOTO: A road sign directs traffic towards the Nord Stream 2 gas line landfall facility entrance in Lubmin, Germany, September 10, 2020...

A road sign directs traffic toward the Nord Stream 2 gas line landfall facility entrance in Lubmin, Germany, on September 10, 2020...

A worker puts a cap to a pipe at the construction site of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, near the town of Kingisepp, Leningrad region, Russia June 5, 2019...