It is the first time that a top-level European politician outside the Iberian space points to Portugal as an important part of the solution to the gas crisis, but also of the infrastructure map that ensures, in the longer term, the security of supply in a gas country. -Russian free Europe.
The statement by the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, in which he lamented the failure in the construction of the gas interconnection between Portugal and Spain and the rest of Europe, which could make a “great contribution” to supply the center and north, was enthusiastically received. of the continent. in the Iberian countries. Since the beginning of the crisis, Spain and Portugal have tried to place this interconnection on the agenda of energy policy decisions and also of European funds, but with relative success. They have now received almost desperate support from Germany.
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Source: Observadora
