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Sánchez puts obstacles to gas pipeline connections with France


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The president of the Government, Pedro Sanchez, shows a relative interest in building energy connections between Spain and France to have access to the rest of the gas pipeline network in the rest of Europe. In his appearance before the journalists after the extraordinary European Council that was held in Brussels, Sánchez once again said that This type of infrastructure is financed by the European Unionwithout taking into account that Spain has been assigned up to 140,000 million euros, between credits and subsidies, to carry out this type of project, among others.

Sánchez, however in remembering that «Spanish taxpayers have paid with their efforts for decades for the regasification and storage facilities for liquefied gasnow it is up to the European Union to pay for the interconnections with the continent».

Industry and specialists advised the government accelerate work to complete the gas interconnection with France through Cataloniain order to take advantage of regasification infrastructures and turn the Iberian Peninsula into a distribution point for liquefied gas to replace Russian gas.

In a completely different way to the Spanish, Italy has strengthened its relations with Algeria to increase gas supply and now plans to increase its regasification capacity to take advantage of its connections with Austria and Germany, which are the two countries most affected by the future cutoff of supply by Russia.

Spain and Portugal are the most isolated countries from the energy point of viewwhether electricity or gas, with the rest of Europe, which prevents them from benefiting from the possibility of increasing supply sources and the advantages of competition.

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The EU is not opposed – on the contrary, it encourages them – to build interconnections between member countries to improve permeability of the internal market in the field of energy and to make better use of renewable energy surpluses and is aware of the specific situation of the Iberian Peninsula, as reflected in the Council’s conclusions document in which it “calls to complete and improve the interconnection of the European gas and electricity networks by investing in and completing infrastructure for new and existing projects, including LNG and future-proof gas-to-hydrogen and electricity interconnections across the European Union, including island member states. And in the production of renewables, including, based on the next analysis of the regulators and the current geopolitical context, taking advantage of the potential of the Iberian Peninsula to contribute to the security of supply of the EU». However, it does not refer to European funding, which is the condition that Sánchez has set to carry it out.

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