Energy security, climate change on top of EU agenda
Over the next 18-months, energy security and climate change will top the EU’s policy agenda, the union agreed about today. The announced focus might increase the role of Arctic issues in European affairs.
France, Sweden and the Czech Republic, the countries scheduled to lead the European Union over the next 18-months, today agreed to concentrate on energy security and climate change, the International Herald Tribune reports.
The three countries agreed Tuesday on a 75-page document that would coordinate their policies as each leads the EU for six months under the union’s system of a rotating presidency.
The stress on energy security and climate change comes only two months after EU’s two top foreign policy representatives, Javier Solana and Benita Ferrero-Waldner, in an official report expressed concern about the conflict potential in the Arctic and the Barents Sea.
Read the EU document Climate change and international security here
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