Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and support for separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine is driving Europe’s energy policy on everything from natural gas, renewables, energy efficency and electricity to building an EU-wide energy union, the bloc’s energy and climate commissioner told POLITICO.
“The Ukrainian situation has triggered all the alarms in the EU and now security of supply is a main concern that permeates all our policies,” Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete said in an interview.
Both of the Commission’s energy chiefs, Arias Cañete and energy union vice-president Maroš Šefčovič, have been hunting for new energy supplies, visiting North Africa, Norway, the U.S. and …read more
Source: European Voice