BERLIN—Germany pushed back against pressure from President Trump over its planned Russian gas pipeline after Berlin warned it could reconsider its commitment to begin importing American gas if the U.S. makes good on a threat to block the project. The warning, in a letter by the German ambassador to several U.S. senators last month, came as Congress is weighing a bipartisan move to enact sanctions against the controversial German-Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which the U.S. has long opposed.

Source: Wall Street Journal April 30, 2019 11:32 UTC