A little after the scheduled time, around 16:00, the European leaders of the nine countries participating in the European summit in Alicante this Friday showed up at Ciudad de la Luz, the first of two meetings scheduled this afternoon. This first meeting will serve to reveal common positions that will provide a solution to the energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine this year. This meeting will be followed by the second meeting, originally scheduled for 18:30, to discuss the new rules on European financial policy. Pedro Sánchez, President of the Spanish Government, was the first to appear in Ciudad de la Luz, under tight security and massive media anticipation.
Pedro Sanchez
The leader of the executive hosted other Heads of State and Government and other participants at this Mediterranean summit. Following Sánchez, with the absence of their prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, who at the last minute confirmed his absence due to the flu, Italian representatives emerged. Antonio Trajani, vice-president and foreign minister, joined in his place. Following the Italian delegation, other leaders, including Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, who surprised by stopping to join his country’s media, showed up in Ciudad de la Luz. Representatives from Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Malta, Slovenia, Croatia and Cyprus, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel are attending the summit. the latest in cinematographic installations.
Before the meetings this afternoon, the European leaders had lunch at the Casa Mediterráneo premises. There, officials met this afternoon to celebrate a working dinner where the products of the province occupied a central place. In fact, some accessories such as lunches and tablecloths and napkins were signed by Alicante manufacturers and companies.
energy autonomy
With the creation of new fiscal rules, strategic autonomy and economic governance in energy matters are shifting from the unstable state that the Mediterranean is passing through to the migration crisis to the global economic situation.
The European summit in Alicante will also go down in history as one of the most important events in the continent’s energy transition. President Sanchez; French President Emmanuel Macron and Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa, together with the President of the European Commission, put the final press on the agreement for the construction of what will be Europe’s first major green hydrogen corridor this Friday. . A gas called to be the great source of a decarbonized future.
Source: Informacion
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