Greece has quadrupled the exports of natural gas to its neighbours in the north since 2022, shielding the energy security of all southeastern Europe, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday. 

“Greece plays and hopes to play a central role in the energy interconnectivity between our countries,” Mitsotakis said after a trilateral summit with the prime ministers of Bulgaria Nikolai Denkov and of Romania Marcel Ciolacu in Varna Bulgaria. 

“We want to turn Greece into a hub of international interconnection and distribution of green energy, starting with Bulgaria and Romania, something that demands the strengthening of the electricity interconnections,” added. 

Mitsotakis also pointed out the three leaders agreed that the European perspective of the western Balkans may become a lever of stability in the region.

Mitsotakis also underlined that Athens, Sofia and Bucarest’s positions converge something depicted in the common declaration that they co-signed.