The Romanian Prime Minister, Nicolae Ciucă, on Saturday participated, in Sofia, together with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in the inauguration of the Bulgaria-Greece interconnector, which will allow natural gas imports from Azerbaijan, as an alternative supply source. In his speech, Nicolae Ciucă reminded that the deficiencies in the supply chain, especially with gas, artificially created by Russia, not only have an impact on Europe, but create disturbances on the global energy markets. Romania is ready to play its role as a reliable partner in ensuring Europe’s energy security, the Romanian Prime Minister gave assurances in Sofia. As for Romania, Nicolae Ciucă stated that the country has the necessary amounts of gas and will not lack gas in the coming winter. Also on Saturday, a new pipeline – Baltic Pipe – was put into operation, which transports gas from Norway to Poland, via Denmark and the Baltic Sea. According to Warsaw, the pipeline is at the heart of Poland’s strategy of diversifying its gas supply outside of Russia. Having become the main supplier of gas to Europe after the reduction of Russian deliveries, Norway is connected to Europe through a network of underwater gas pipelines that stretches on almost 9,000 km.
