A senior official from the party that leads Germany’s coalition government called on Monday for an end to a political dispute over the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to bring Russian gas to Germany. The pipeline under the Baltic Sea is backed by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) but opposed by one of its junior coalition partners, the Greens. “We have to leave the (dispute) behind us at some point,” Kevin Kuehnert, the SPD’s secretary general, told a news conference after a meeting of an SPD leadership body. The pipeline was completed in September, but is awaiting approval from German and European Union regulators, and some politicians – in Germany and abroad – have said it should be blocked because […]