Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had an interview with Russian news agency TASS on Dec. 6.
Greece is negotiating with the EU on the extension of the TurkStream, a natural gas pipeline running from Russia to Turkey, across Greek territory to other EU countries.
Tsipras said Athens and other European countries are convinced that the EU has to move to cooperation with Russia on the TurkStream pipeline.
Greece thinks the pipeline should become not only TurkStream but ‘’EuroStream’’ as well as part of the multifaceted policy in the energy sphere.
The first line will be designed for the Turkish market and will meet 35 percent of Turkey’s natural gas consumption alone. The second is for gas supply to countries in southern and southeastern Europe.
The launch of the second branch of the TurkStream to deliver gas to southern and southeast Europe was scheduled for 2019.
In November, Tsipras stated that Greece is actively agitating for this gas pipeline to pass through Greek territory to Europe.
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