Papastavrou meeting with Joshua Volz

Environment and Energy Minister Stavros Papastavrou met with Special Envoy for Energy Integration astatine the US Department of Energy Joshua Volz successful Athens connected Tuesday and discussed strengthening and upgrading Greece’s and Southeastern Europe’s vigor security.

In a κοινωνικά media post, Papastavrou said the gathering followed the coordinated efforts undertaken implicit the past months – from the Transatlantic Gas Security Summit organized by the White House successful February to the meetings held during CERAWeek2026 successful Houston successful March.

“We had the accidental to sermon the affirmative developments successful strengthening and upgrading the vigor information of Greece and Southeastern Europe,” helium said. As Papastavrou noted, “at the halfway of our treatment was the caller statement among Transmission System Operators (TSO), which provides regulatory clarity astatine the European level and enhances the competitiveness of the Vertical Corridor, arsenic well arsenic the signing of the drilling declaration betwixt the ExxonMobil-Energean-Helleniq Energy consortium and Stena Drilling, which unlocks the archetypal deepwater exploratory drilling successful our country’s history.”

Greece and the US are “jointly gathering a strong strategic concern successful the vigor sector,” helium said, adding that the adjacent shared milestone was Croatia and the Three Seas Initiative Summit.