Despite massive controversy, the construction of the Russian-German natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 has been completed, but its certification process has been halted due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Yet the project remains a real and imagined spectre haunting Germany and other countries in the European Union as their desire for (Russian) fossil fuel supplies and commercial investments directly contradicts their desires for environmental and geopolitical security. The devil is in the detail. Produced by Red Forest for Goethe-Institut Mailand.