BERLIN – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo began a five-day European trip on May 31 with a delayed visit to Berlin, where he was expected to press Germany to boost its military spending, avoid dealings with China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and reconsider a pipeline project with Russia.
Reuters: Pompeo to press Germany on Nord Stream 2
Environmental activists hold up a poster reading "Clog pipelines" as they sit in a tube on the construction site for the European Gas Pipeline Link (EUGAL) pipeline in Wrangelsburg, northeastern Germany, on May 16, 2019.
