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Germany should brace for U.S. sanctions over the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project with Russia, signaling an escalation of economic conflict with Europe, according to an envoy of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government.

Peter Beyer, the German government’s coordinator for trans-Atlantic relations, said in an interview that an official in President Donald Trump’s administration told him at a meeting in Washington last week that sanctions related the Baltic Sea pipeline are likely.

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