Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo promised during a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to increase transit gas supplies to Germany and suggested that he hold a bilateral summit to discuss the energy situation, Report informs.
“Just got chancellor Olaf Scholz on the phone. We discussed our energy cooperation and I invited him to a Belgian-German energy summit. I assured him that Belgium intends to strengthen its gas transit capacity to Germany,” De Croo tweeted.
Belgium is a transit state which receives liquefied natural gas through the terminal in the port of Zeebrugge and ensures its further deliveries to the EU countries.