Head of Government, Pedro Sanchezfrench president, Emmanuel Macronand the Portuguese Prime Minister, Antonio Costathey will meet next 8 and 9 December in Alicante, Engaging in a “green energy corridor” on the margins of the Euro-Mediterranean summit, which will connect Barcelona and Marseille and carry green hydrogen.
This meeting will take place after Head of Government Pedro Sánchez announced this Thursday that Spain, France and Portugal have agreed to abandon the MidCat inter-Pyrenees energy interconnection project and replace it with this “green energy corridor”.
Sánchez put forward this agreement in remarks to reporters upon his arrival at the European Council meeting and after meeting with Macron and Costa in Brussels to analyze the future of reciprocal links.
“We have reached an agreement” Replace the MidCat project with a new project called the green energy corridor that will connect the Iberian Peninsula with France. and therefore proposes the Barcelona-Marseille alternative to the European energy market.”
He pointed out that in this way the green hydrogen and the gas required during the transition could be transported.
Three leaders to advance the details of the project Will meet again in Alicante on 8 and 9 DecemberIt’s where Sánchez’s Euro-Mediterranean summit, which was canceled just a few weeks ago due to positive covid, will take place.