22 Jan. () –
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has celebrated the entry of Germany into the H2Med project together with Spain, France and Portugal and has ensured 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 there are already two, in favor of European energy sovereignty,” he added in a message on the social network Twitter, collected by Europa Press .
Berlin thus commits itself to the “connection and extension of the existing and planned infrastructure, in particular the extension of the H2Med gas pipeline to Germany in close cooperation with the interested partners”, according to the joint Franco-German statement published this Sunday on the occasion of the bilateral summit held in Paris.
“We are going to take the necessary measures to establish a European framework for the transport of hydrogen throughout Europe with the necessary infrastructure at a national and transnational level”, highlights the text published after the meeting between the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and the French president , Emmanuel Macron, held 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 the Second World War.
According to the Ministry of Ecological Transition, led by Teresa Ribera, in this way a “definitive achievement” is achieved for the necessarily European vocation with which Spain dimensioned this hydroduct 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.
