Speeches

I find both the speech by European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson and the report he referred to disappointing. Unfortunately, the obsession with reducing emissions is stronger for the European Commission than the reality of rising energy prices for citizens and companies, the prospect of shortages of basic fuels or the lack of significant progress in energy efficiency. It is, moreover, a report containing contradictory observations. For example, renewables are said to have surpassed fossil fuels as the main source of energy in the EU for the first time. But this happened because of the closure of energy production capacities, as it happened in Romania. It's a rather artificial change in the market share of green energy. At the same time, the report draws attention to the EU’s highest level of dependence on fossil fuel imports – with a brief and bizarre explanation in plenary from Commissioner Simson: "paradoxically". There is nothing paradoxical here, it is a matter of logic and understanding the geostrategic context – aspects that are, unfortunately, foreign to such an important decision-making area in the European Commission.