The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has welcomed Germany’s entry into the H2Med project together with Spain, France and Portugal and has assured that the green corridor definitively reinforces its pan-European dimension by being a new «Iberian solution».
«After the Treaty of Barcelona, the green corridor definitely reinforces its pan-European dimension. A new Iberian solution, and that makes two, in favor of European energy sovereignty,» he added in a message on the social network Twitter, collected by Europa Press.
Berlin is thus committed to the «connection and extension of existing and planned infrastructure, in particular the extension of the H2Med pipeline to Germany in close cooperation with interested partners,» as explained in the joint Franco-German communiqué published Sunday on the occasion of the bilateral summit held in Paris.
«We will take the necessary steps to establish a European framework for hydrogen transport throughout Europe with the necessary infrastructure at national and transnational level,» stresses the text published following the meeting between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Elysée Treaty that laid the foundations of the alliance between the two countries shortly after World War II.
According to the Ministry of Ecological Transition, led by Teresa Ribera, a «definitive achievement» is thus reached to the necessarily European vocation with which Spain sized this hydroproduct since it began to promote it from the beginning of the project, as witnessed by the presence of the President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, at the presentation of H2Med at the last Alicante Summit, on December 9, 2022.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
