U.S. Opposition to Pipeline Hangs Over Meeting Between Putin and Merkel : politics
U.S. Opposition to Pipeline Hangs Over Meeting Between Putin and Merkel : politics U.S. Opposition to Pipeline Hangs Over Meeting Between Putin and Merkel By Bojan Pancevski , www.wsj.com Посмотреть оригинал август 18-го, 2018 As President Vladimir Putin met with Chancellor Angela Merkel near Berlin on Saturday to try to safeguard a controversial Russian-German gas pipeline, the U.S. wasn’t present but it could have a big say in the outcome. The U.S. has in hand a package of sanctions that could be used to try to stop completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which is already in its advanced stages, by targeting companies, and potentially financial firms, involved in its construction. Current and former U.S. officials said such sanctions had been...