Ségolène Royal, French minister for ecology, sustainable development and energy, received, on 30 June, fellow Energy Ministers José Manuel Soria (Spain) and Jorge Moreira da Silva (Portugal), as well as Energy and Climate Commissioner Miguel Arias Caňete, for the signature of a memorandum of understanding setting up a high-level group on interconnections in South-Western Europe. The group then held its first meeting with a heavy agenda covering both electricity and gas connections.
On electricity, after the 20 February inauguration of…