Uniunea Europeana si Presedintele E.U. Barroso s-au lansat intr-o cursa contra-cronometru pentru a devansa planurile SUA si a-si asigura un regim preferential din partea RUSIEI in aprovizionarea stabila cu energie, in fata iminentei unei grave crize pe Piata Petrolului, mai ales a celui provenit din zona Orientului Apropiat datorita izolarii Iranului si escaladarii tensiunii in Irak si Palestina.
Dipl. Ec. Ioan Pop
Brussels, 9 March 2006 -
President Barroso to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin to "step up" EU-Russia strategic partnership
European
Commission President Barroso will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin next Friday (17 March) in Moscow for a broad discussion on global issues and future EU-Russia relations. The meeting takes place ahead of the forthcoming G8 Summit in St. Petersburg and in view of the need to frame the post-2007 relationship (the current EU-Russia Partnership and Cooperation agreement expires in 2007). A key element of the talks will be a discussion on energy security, one of the priorities of the Russian G8 Presidency and also a topic of the European Council, March 23-24, where EU heads of state are due to discuss the Commissions Energy Green Paper.
Speaking before the meeting, President Barroso said: Russia and the European Union are already strong partners in international affairs. The existing EU-Russia Partnership and
Cooperation Agreement reaches the end of its initial ten-year period in 2007. Now is the time, therefore, to rethink the future shape of EU-Russia relations and to explore all the options for a closer and more effective co-operation. At the heart of our relations will be a new energy partnership with Russia. We want to work with Russia on energy security in a positive and constructive way. Europe and Russia are energy interdependent, and the message that I will take to Moscow is that on energy, as in many other areas where we have common interests, we must maximise our co-operation.
The bilateral meeting between European Commission President Barroso and Russian President Putin will take place in Moscow, over dinner, on Friday 17 March.
Russia and single market loom large in EU energy plan
08.03.2006 - 15:05 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Commission's new energy plan targets security, sustainability and competitiveness but lacks legal proposals and target dates, with Brussels appealing to the goodwill of member states.
President Jose Manuel Barroso unveiled the energy discussion paper in Brussels on Wednesday (8 March) ahead of the EU leaders' energy-dominated summit in two weeks time.
The commission proposes strengthening relations with Russia, developing non-oil and gas power such as nuclear or wind energy and accelerating steps toward a single European energy market.
The three-pronged approach was described as a "Kyoto-Lisbon-Moscow triangle" by the commission chief.
It includes 30 potential measures such as: a new forum for coordinating commission and member states' foreign policy; a "solidarity mechanism" in case of supply shocks; an EU-level energy merger regulator; an EU-level energy trend monitoring office and new electricity grid connections.
The paper does not offer ideas on the legal instruments that would have to be created to underpin a common energy policy or give a headline target date for launching the policy, however.
"We are lacking in such instruments for now," Mr Barroso said. "It's true that we dont have a constitution, the draft constitution did give more community competency in the area of energy."
It will be up to member states to answer the question "Do they want a clear objective, a clear time frame?" he added.
Was Hampton Court just hot air?
President Jose Manuel Barroso unveiled the energy discussion paper in Brussels on Wednesday (8 March) ahead of the EU leaders' energy-dominated summit in two weeks time.
The commission proposes strengthening relations with Russia, developing non-oil and gas power such as nuclear or wind energy and accelerating steps toward a single European energy market.
The three-pronged approach was described as a "Kyoto-Lisbon-Moscow triangle" by the commission chief.
It includes 30 potential measures such as: a new forum for coordinating commission and member states' foreign policy; a "solidarity mechanism" in case of supply shocks; an EU-level energy merger regulator; an EU-level energy trend monitoring office and new electricity grid connections.
The paper does not offer ideas on the legal instruments that would have to be created to underpin a common energy policy or give a headline target date for launching the policy, however.
"We are lacking in such instruments for now," Mr Barroso said. "It's true that we dont have a constitution, the draft constitution did give more community competency in the area of energy."
It will be up to member states to answer the question "Do they want a clear objective, a clear time frame?" he added.
Was Hampton Court just hot air?
Member states expressed unanimous support for an EU-level approach to energy at a summit in Hampton Court, UK, late last year, with January's Russia-Ukraine gas crisis galvanising wills, Mr Barroso said.
"It is true that previous commissioners have tried to make reforms in this area and that reservations emerged at national level, but I see a fundamental change now," he said.
"I think now we have the political conditions we did not have before to make progress."
The president acknowledged member states strong sense of sovereignty on energy issues by underlining that "we will not interfere in any country's right to choose its own energy mix."
However, he went on to say that French and Spanish attempts to fence off national energy giants from foreign takeovers "contradict" the common energy policy project.
He brushed off the recent merger disputes as the "birth pains of the single market" while stressing that if Europe can create multinational defence companies, energy consolidation should not be a problem.
The Moscow axis
Mr Barroso intends to meet Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow in the run up to the energy summit to deliver the message that Europe is a "very important customer" for Russia.
The talks will pave the way for a new energy treaty with Russia in 2007, the green paper suggests.
The discussion paper also testifies to the importance of South Caucasus in EU energy terms, calling for gas and oil pipelines "facilitating Caspian supplies to the EU through Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria."
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