Germany has historically relied on Russia for about one-third of gas imports and has suffered as President Vladimir Putin turned off the taps to pressure European nations who oppose his war in Ukraine. In a joint action plan, both leaders said they would continue to lobby for better interconnections to enhance the supply security for the bloc as a whole, calling the MidCat pipeline of “paramount importance.”īerlin wants to tap Spain’s vast power infrastructure to help Europe’s biggest economy weather future winters without Russian gas.
“We are asking for the Iberian peninsula to be interconected, and that is good for France and for all of Europe,” Sanchez said. Germany and Spain want to convince France of the benefits of such a pipeline for Europe as a whole, the two leaders said. “I’m very much promoting the idea that we should build this connection,” Scholz told reporters following the bilateral talks with Sanchez in the northern Spanish city of A Coruna.įollowing a meeting with Macron in Berlin earlier this week, Scholz voiced cautious optimism that France might drop its opposition. The proposed MidCat link, which would also enable hydrogen to flow from the Iberian Peninsula via the Pyrenees mountains to the rest of Europe, was at the top of the agenda in a meeting between Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday.
(Bloomberg) - The leaders of Germany and Spain raised pressure on French President Emmanuel Macron to drop his resistance to a natural gas pipeline they see as key to reducing European dependence on Russian energy supplies.
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