Building a gas pipeline across the Pyrenees mountains is in "Europe's interest" and is a project that Spain will vigorously defend despite top-level French opposition, a Spanish minister said on Tuesday in Madrid. French President Emmanuel Macron, however, has argued the project is "unnecessary".
With Russia withholding gas deliveries to most of Europe in reaction to sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine, there has been a resurgence of interest in a link to transport supplies from Spain to the rest of the continent.
