Angela Merkel and her advisers, before a visit to the White House last spring, agreed on a priority: Avoid talk of Nord Stream 2. The German-Russian pipeline project had been a bone of contention between Berlin and Washington, which fears it will make Europe’s largest economy excessively reliant on Russian energy.
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Picture taken on Nov. 15, 2018 shows a man standing on the pipe-laying ship "Audacia" looking on as tubes are layed for the "Nord Stream 2" gas pipeline off the coast of the Baltic Sea island Ruegen, northeastern Germany.
