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Washington (AP) - In the dispute over the German-Russian Baltic Sea pipeline Nord Stream 2, the US Congress wants to extend the threatened sanctions, but first consult European partner states.
This emerges from the draft law package on the US defense budget, which Democrats and Republicans agreed in both chambers in the US Congress on Thursday (local time).
In addition, no sanctions should be imposed on the governments of Germany, other EU member states, Switzerland, Norway and Great Britain or the EU itself because of Nord Stream 2.
It was known so far that both the House of Representatives and the Senate - the two chambers in the US Congress - want to expand sanctions against the companies involved in the pipeline.
In the previous draft bills, which have now been brought together for the defense budget package (NDAA), there was previously no mention of European partners having to be consulted or that sanctions against countries in Europe were not permitted.
After being passed by both chambers in Congress, US President Donald Trump has to sign the law for it to come into effect.
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