BRUSELAS, 20 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced this Thursday an agreement with the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, and the Portuguese, Antonio Costa, to set aside the MidCat gas pipeline project and develop a "new energy corridor" to interconnect the Iberian Peninsula with the rest of the European Union through a pipeline linking Barcelona with Marseille.

It is an agreement between the three governments to "replace" the MidCat project with a new project for a "green energy corridor" that will link Spain with the rest of the European Union and that will allow the transport of green hydrogen but also gas for a transition period.

The agreement has been reached in Brussels after a meeting of just over an hour between the leaders at the headquarters of the Permanent Representation of France to the EU, shortly before the start of the European Council in which the Twenty-seven will try to overcome the differences on new measures to intervene in the energy market and put a ceiling on high gas prices.