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		</div><p>Germany and France pledged on Friday to provide each other mutual support in preventing a possible energy crisis after supplies from Russia dried up amid the war in Ukraine.</p>
<p>As part of a joint agreement signed by German chancellor Olaf Scholz and French prime minister Elisabeth Borne, Germany will provide France with electricity while getting much-needed natural gas in return.</p>
<p>“Friends help each other in need,” Mr Scholz said after the signing ceremony in Berlin.</p>
<p>Ms Borne echoed that sentiment, saying the friendship between the two European heavyweight was crucial. “It has already proved it can withstand tests and master many challenges,” she said.</p>
<p>Before Russia launched its war in Ukraine nine months ago, Germany was heavily reliant on Russian gas supplies.</p>
<p>Since then, Germany has scrambled to find other sources, including by ramping up imports of liquefied natural gas.</p>
<p>France, meanwhile, is struggling to meet its electricity needs due to repairs at several of the country’s nuclear power plants.</p>
<p>There are concerns that a sharp rise in electricity demand from France this winter, coupled with lower production in Germany and limited transmission capacity in Europe, could strain the continent’s grid.</p>
<p>In response, France said it would provide up to 100 gigawatt hours of gas per day to Germany. Meanwhile, Germany will “maximise the interconnection capacity” for electricity exports.</p>
<p>Berlin will also allow “all available reserve power plants to enter back into the market and postpone the phase-out of the remaining nuclear power plants until mid-April 2023 in order to even provide additional electricity trading volumes to France,” according to the agreement.</p>
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