Sánchez and Scholz meet again for October 5 and 6 at the Spanish-German summit in Madrid

The president participates in the German Council of Ministers and will meet with the chancellor with Midcat on the agenda

MESEBERG (GERMANY), 30 Aug. (from the EUROPA PRESS special envoy, Víctor Tuda) -

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, will see each other again on October 5 and 6 on the occasion of the Spanish-German summit that Madrid will host, according to government sources.

Sánchez participates this Tuesday as a guest in a meeting of the Council of Ministers of the German Government focused on energy and security in the Meseberg castle, on the outskirts of Berlin, just one day after the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen , was open to intervene in the electricity market and address its reform to deal with Russian energy "blackmail".

The German Executive is working on a national security strategy, an issue that it will share with Sánchez in an appointment that will include the energy issue and that will have the MidCat gas pipeline on the table to bring gas from the peninsula to the heart of Europe and that the German chancellor publicly supported .

Government sources consider the invitation an enormous show of trust from the German government towards the Spanish president. The meeting coincides with Berlin's open commitment to MidCat and when the idea of ​​setting a ceiling on gas prices is spreading in Europe, something that Spain and Portugal are already doing thanks to the so-called 'Iberian exception' that could now be extended to other Member states.

In this sense, Moncloa considers that time is proving the leader of the Executive right and among the Twenty-seven the measure launched two months ago by Madrid and Lisbon is making its way, with permission from Brussels and the approval of the rest of the European partners . This measure has allowed Spain to save 1,383 million euros, according to government calculations.

Sánchez and Scholz will then hold a bilateral meeting on the same stage, the third meeting since the Social Democratic chancellor took office last December.

The German leader traveled to Spain to meet with Sánchez in mid-January shortly after succeeding Angela Merkel, while the two met again in the spring as part of Sánchez's tour of Europe to forge alliances to approve the Iberian exception to the price of gas.