Buzek for the creation of a European Energy Community, while EU prepares New 2020 Strategy
*Brussels/Angelo Marcopolo/- EU Parliament's President, Jerzy Buzek, speaking to Journalists in Brussels, including "EuroFora", while EU Council was discussing the preparation of a New Economic Strategy for the horizon of 2020, explained his strong support for the creation of a European Energy Community :
- In fact, "it's a lot of problems" which are related "with Energy", he stressed from the outset :
- "First of all, we (EU) need Secuity of Supply : In some Countries, in many countries, it's not quite sure". F.ex., "last winter, Slovakia and Bulgaria were in a very bad situation. So, we should build possible connections, for Electricity, for Gas, etc", including "with Countries outside of the EU". So, "doing it all together would be much more effective, than doing it separately", he observed.
- "We (EU) need also fighting Climate Change, with new Energies sources, Reneawbles, and Storage, developing New Technologies", Buzek added.
- Moreover, "we (EU) are speaking also about being more Competitive : That means cheaper Energy, and there, New Technologies are very helpful".
- "So, everything we are saying today about Energy, is, in fact, New Technologies !", underlined Buzek, who was EU's Rapporteur for the current 7th Framework Program on Research and Development.
- That's why, "if we want to have Cheap, No-polluting and Secure Energy, we should build something like a Community. It would be easier for us (EU)", and "more effective", he concluded.
- "And I'm sure that some Tensions which exist today between (EU) Member States, could be overcome. We can manage those tensions : we can achieve agreements, etc. But it's better not to have such tensions at all. And in a Community, we can solve them better", EU Parliament's President went on to add.
Buzek said that while EU's Heads of State and Government were hearing a communication by EU's President, Herman Van Rompuy, about an informal EU Council that he plans to organize on February-March 2010, in order to discuss and decide on how to respond to EU's need for a New "2020" Strategy in Economy, going well beyond the former "Lisbon Strategy"of 2000, which notoriously failed to boost investment in innovation. (See "EuroFora"s publication : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/researchorturkey.html )
The move is due to be launched during the forthcoming Spanish EU Chairmanship (January - June 2010), who will be succeeded by Belgium's EU Chairmanship (July - December 2010), Van Rompuy's own country of origin.
Meanwhile, the idea to boost Research and Innovation by investing in the Energy sector, was also supported by he experienced, mainstream ChristianDemocrat/EPP Austrian MEP Paul Ruebig, in a question to outgoing EU Commissioner on Industry, Gunter Veheugen, earlier in Strasbourg, who will be succeeded by the new German EU Commissioner, Gunther Oettering, who has been nominated precisely on Energy. (See : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/oettingerbonn.html )
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Europe brings Development dynamics at Global Crisis' Summit debates
Thanks also to EU Parliament Plenary's Strasbourg gathering, EU, during the French EU Presidency, managed to integrate the Development issues at Top Debates on the World Summit against the Economic Crisis :
For the 1st time, it's at the same moment with the Wahington G-20 Summit that EU Commissioner Louis Michel co-organizes here with the French EU Presidency parallel mega-events for the "European Development Days", starting from this Week-End and concluding at the eve of a landmark debate in EU Parliament, next Tuesday, on the outcome and follow-up of the Wash.DC Summit.
EU and its Member Countries are the biggest donor for UNO's Millenium Development goals, with 56%, but the 27 are currently struggling to develop a collective leadership in Economic and social matters, that the 15 of EuroGroup (together with the UK and other countries interested to be usefully associated) are starting to spearhead, after the initial success of the 1st EuroZone Heads of State and Government Summit, of October 12 in Paris, according to a New Repport by MEPs Pervench Beres and Werner Langen on the 10 Years of EuroZone (1999-2009) debated Monday and voted on Tuesday.
EU, CoE and World personalities will interact here with Heads of State or Government from Tanzania (African Union chair), Burkina Faso (CEDEAO + UEMOA chair), Zimbabwe (MDC chair), Madagascar, Haiti, Mali, Benin, etc, and some 3000 participants from the Economy, Civil Society, Media, Experts, etc, while the City of Strasbourg adds various related Citizen-events.
Opened by French Secretary of State Alain Joyandet on November 15, and followed by a video-contact with EU Commission President Jose Baroso on the Washington Summit Sunday, the EDD are concluded by Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner on Monday, while their main concerns cannot be ignored in the Debate that EU Parliament will hold on Tuesday, (followed by a Resolution on Wednesday), jointly on the G-20 Washington Summit and on EU Commission's work program for 2009.
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The move is prolonged in several Paris' meetings of EU chair, French President Nicolas Sarkozy with African Heads of State leading regional Organizations, as from Tanzania (A.U. Chair), Burkina Faso (chair of Economic African organizations), Togo, etc, (in parallel with a Ministerial EU - African Union conference in Ethiopia, followed by a visit to Tchad), logically concluded by a meeting with Robert Zoellic President of the World Bank.
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