France, Portugal and Spain have agreed to plan new energy connections between the three countries, not through an expansion of the Midi-Catalonia natural gas project – or MidCat – but through a “green energy corridor,” the countries’ leaders said in a joint statement.

Ahead of the European Commission’s Thursday meeting on energy price policies in Brussels, French President Emmanuel Macron, Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez met to discuss a subsea pipeline and other shared projects.

Outlined to span the Mediterranean Sea between Barcelona and Marseille in France, lending it the name BarMar, the pipeline could carry natural gas from Spain and Portugal’s extensive import terminals to France, but only for a limited period....