Chancellor Olaf Scholz is confident that the EU countries will show solidarity if there is a gas shortage in autumn or winter. “Of course we have to show solidarity in Europe,” he said on Tuesday in Berlin after a meeting with Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob. “I’m sure we’ll be able to do that,” he added.

Golob had previously emphasized that small EU countries like Slovenia could be dependent on the help. No country can deal with an energy crisis alone, there are only solutions in the EU association. EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton had previously warned that the 27 EU countries should not, as in the Corona pandemic, develop national reflexes in an emergency that affects everyone.