Electricity : Cross-border interconnection projects

A high-level group has been set up, tasked with giving effect to the Madrid declaration on energy interconnections, signed on 4 March by the French, Spanish and Portuguese prime ministers plus the European Commission president. The group, for which a memorandum of understanding was signed on 15 June in Luxembourg in the presence of Energy and Climate Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete, will be charged with identifying the priority projects to be implemented to bring the Iberian Peninsula out of its…