(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 02 - Italy is among the 22 Member States that have expressed their preliminary interest in aggregating gas demand at EU level.
This was indicated by sources of the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security (Mase) at the end of the meeting of the board of the EU platform for joint gas purchases.
The volume of gas reported by Rome to participate in the first tranche of joint purchases - which Brussels intends to carry out in April - is around 2.3 billion cubic metres.
The hope, explained the same sources, is to do "even more in the interest of the industrial fabric".
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