“Joe Biden Is Unlikely to Save Angela Merkel’s Pet Project,” headlines a Bloomberg article yesterday about the $11 billion, 1,239 km Russia-German Baltic Sea gas line.

“Joe Biden Is Unlikely to Save Angela Merkel’s Pet Project,” headlines a Bloomberg article yesterday about the $11 billion, 1,239 km Russia-German Baltic Sea gas line. “U.S. opposition is likely to remain under Biden,” Bloomberg writes about Nord Stream 2. “There’s American cross-aisle agreement” against Nord Stream, Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission President and Angela Merkel’s former defense minister, told Germany’s Die Zeit newspaper earlier this month.