There are always reasons to make it better than in the past.
As for Germany I was under the impresson there's a new pipe line going strait to them, they've got the best energy garuntee in the EU, I don't know much more than that.
Well - for us Germans it does not matter through which pipe our gas is coming. The pipes through Ukraine and Poland were also sure for us since we are the most important and reliable clients of Russia. The Russians can not afford to stop the deliveries to Ukraine and Poland since they would stop the deliveries to us then. It is more a problem of Russia if the Ukrainians are siphoning (stealing) gas since they have to pump more gas than they sell then. The Poles are for sure reliable clients (in difference to their neighbours in the east) and steal no gas, but they also have enough reasons to mistrust Russia. We all know that there is no warm friendship between Moscow and Warsaw. Well I think that Gasprom theoretically could deliver cheaper gas to Germany when the "black holes" in Belarus and Ukraine are closed. In reality we Germans will pay even more. Have you ever heared that energy prices were lowered??! The offshore-pipeline will cost millions and bazillions more than a conventional one. This has also be paid by German consumers.
Therefore we Germans have no benefit from the this offshore-pipeline. The security of our energy deliveries from Russia was never in danger since we are the ones to pay good cold cash for it. This pipeline makes only sense to Russia and Gasprom because they will soon be able to shut the lines through Ukraine and Belarus. Furthermore they can press the Poles to be more submissive to the Kremlin. Nothing of this is in our (German) interest. There is only one German who will cash in because of this new pipeline:
This guy is a traitor and Judas who sold his own people.