BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO and the EU are launching a task force to boost protection of critical infrastructure in response to last year’s attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines and Russia’s “weaponising of energy,” the organisations’ leaders said on Wednesday. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the sabotage of the Russia-to-Germany pipelines in the Baltic Sea last September showed the need “to confront this new type of threat”. “This is a task force where our experts from NATO and the European Union will work hand-in-hand to identify key threats to our critical infrastruc…