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Lithuania has joined Poland's appeal against the European Commission's decision to give Russia's Gazprom more capacity on a branch of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in Germany, with the government saying that Brussels' move may increase Europe's dependence on Russian gas and harm Ukraine.
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The government last week gave the green light for Lithuania's participation in the European Court of Justice proceedings, Aurelija Vernickaitė, a spokeswoman for the energy minister, confirmed to BNS on Thursday.

The government maintains that the Commission's "decision leads to an increase in Europe's energy dependence on Gazprom and may

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