Alicante will host tomorrow, September 30. European Union Southern Countries Summit (MED-9)known as Euro-Mediterranean Group. The capital city of Alicante, elected by the Head of Government Pedro SanchezIt will host the meeting that will bring together the Heads of State and Government. Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Malta, Cyprus, Croatia and Slovenia.
this Talks between European leaders at the Alicante Summit will take place at the facilities Mediterranean House Y City of LightWhile an event is planned to be held at the headquarters of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), as confirmed by official sources to this newspaper.
With held summit Alicante Heads of State or Government of nine countries are expected to attend participants: Pedro Sanchez; Greek colleague, Kyriakos Mitsotakis; french president, Emmanuel Macron; President of Slovenia, Janez Janssa; President of Cyprus Nikos Anastasiadis; croatian president, Andrew Plenkovic; Maltese president, Robert Atala; Portuguese Prime Minister, Anthony Costaand Italian mario draghiWho will take part in the tasks, given that the new government in Italy has not yet been formed.
Also, your existence Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission.
Alicante Summit to insist on promoting gas interconnection in EU
this Nine heads of state and government of Euro-Mediterranean countries will insist on its importance. Promoting gas interconnections in the EUThis is a point that will be reflected in the final statement of the Med-9 meeting to be held in Alicante this Friday.
this Euro-Mediterranean meeting plans to address it in its first session. As a result, energy supply problems in the EU war in ukraine and how important it is to continue making progress in interconnections and energy saving measures. In fact, this issue will be included in the final document of the meeting in a certain way.
Although sources explain this, MidCat interconnection project between France and the Iberian Peninsula Parked in 2019 and France is reluctant, Spain will insist on the importance of continuing to move forward on this project.
a) Yes, Both Spanish and French sources confirmed this Wednesday that talks have never broken down and are continuing to move forward.especially at the technical level, given that Europe needs this and that in times of crisis solidarity must be shown, either with interconnections or with energy saving measures.
Therefore, it is expected that the issue will be discussed at the Alicante meeting and a political consensus will be reached on this issue, but Moncloa sources remind that there is an EU Energy Ministers meeting this Friday that will address the issue in depth. . . .
Since the purpose of this meeting is not to create polemics or divisions, but to highlight the common interests of all of Southern Europe, it will be energy ministers who will address the technical aspects more specifically, while a political consensus will be sought more in Med 9. countries.