Fine-tuning PM Tusk’s energy union
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John Beauchamp
16.05.2014 14:29
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Fine-tuning PM Tusk’s energy union. John Beauchamp reports.
Prime Minister Tusk continues to rally support for his plan for a European energy union, although its details still need to be ironed out, says EU commissioner.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk attends the session titled 'Visegrad Up: Finding Common Grounds in Times of Crisis' at the 2014 GLOBSEC Security Forum in Bratislava, Slovakia, 15 May 2014. Photo: PAP/EPA/JOZEF JAKUBCO
Europe will have to pay the price if it is to create a diverse and unified energy policy, Prime Minister Donald Tusk underlined at a security conference in Bratislava on Thursday.
The comments come as PM Tusk is making the rounds to rally support for his idea of a European energy union. However, the plans are still in need of some work, as John Beauchamp reports.
“If we are talking seriously about security, then we must sincerely say to ourselves that Europe will not be safe if we do not level up in terms of energy solidarity ... There will be a price to pay for this ... solidarity does not come for free,” Tusk said in Bratislava.
Meanwhile, on the same day that Tusk spoke in the Slovak capital, EU Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger was reported by the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as saying that “gas is a product, not a policy weapon for the EU,” in reference to Tusk’s plans that the EU should buy gas as a single bloc.