NATO countries have agreed a 27-billion-euro overhaul of their fuel network to supply forces in Europe in coming decades, in a move Romania hailed on Thursday as “essential” for security.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ambassadors from the alliance’s 32 members signed off on the mammoth project to update and extend the network at a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday. \u00a0<\/p>\n
“The 27-billion-euro ($31-billion) investment will modernise NATO’s existing fuel storage and distribution infrastructure,” NATO said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It will support new facilities, including pipelines, in the eastern and southeastern part of the alliance and ensure NATO forces have the energy supplies they need for war-fighting readiness.”<\/p>\n
Romanian President Nicusor Dan — whose country has grappled with drone incursions from the war in neighbouring Ukraine — said the project was “essential to reinforce security” on NATO’s eastern flank in the face of the threat from Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Officials said the project would take around 25 years to complete. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
NATO’s Central European Pipeline System was set up in the late 1950s to supply fuel to alliance forces on the continent during the Cold War. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The 5,300-kilometre (3,300-mile) network currently crosses Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands and delivers fuel to 29 alliance depots.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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