Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will seek to gain political support from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s administration for Green Aegean, an electricity supply corridor envisaged to run from Greece to Germany’s south, when the two leaders meet in Berlin today.

The project is listed high on the agenda of their meeting, topped by the Middle East crisis and Greece’s long-term fiscal program.

Mitsotakis will reiterate to Chancellor Scholz that Germany’s needs for low-cost green energy, expected to rise over the coming years, could, to a great extent, be covered via a south-to-north supply corridor, which would begin with a 3-GW capacity and gradually rise to 9 GW.

The Greek leader, who had presented the project at an EU summit last March and has since remained well informed on its prospects, believes its development prospects are feasible.

The Green Aegean project is envisaged to run from Greece, through the Adriatic Sea, across Slovenia and Austria, all the way to Germany’s south.

Mitsotakis may also discuss the Green Aegean project at an additional meeting, later in the day, with Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany’s main opposition Christian Democrats (CDU), as well as during public discussion tonight at a Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) event.