The Government will put "all its efforts" to help Europe with the gas supply

• Economy Scholz urges a gas pipeline from Spain that supplies Germany "massively"

The Government will make every effort to improve

and that the European partners most exposed to a

"can have the solidarity of those countries better prepared" for this scenario, such as

and

.

This was stated this Friday by the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Reyes Maroto, in an interview on Antena 3, after being asked about the words of the German Chancellor,

, in favor of a gas pipeline that

to the rest of Europe.

Energy crisis

Energy crisis.

Scholz urges a gas pipeline from Spain to supply Germany "massively"

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Scholz urges a gas pipeline from Spain to supply Germany "massively"

Maroto has insisted that the Executive has been "for a long time trying to coordinate

", to the point of being "pioneers in asking for the reform of the system", but has clarified that "the solutions have to come from the Union, from the integration policies.

At this point, he has referred to the position of

, whose prime minister,

, assured this Thursday on social networks that Germany could count "100%" on his country to build the gas pipeline, "today for natural gas, tomorrow for green hydrogen".

"We will put all our efforts so that regasification can be improved and, of course, that the countries most affected by a future Russian gas cut

, such as Spain and Portugal", Maroto added.

The minister has stressed that it is necessary to

and has explained that they are already preparing the port of El Musel in Gijón "to give more gas, above all, to France".

"

. We hope that if the German chancellor's proposal succeeds we can have better gasification and more interconnections in Europe so as not to depend on Russian gas and be able to have energy autonomy", he concluded.

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