The strengthening of our country’s energy role, which is now leading in East Mediterraneansparking reactions, the Minister of Environment and Energy, Mr. Stavros Papastavrouspeaking today on SKAI television and on “On Line”, with journalists Nandin Hardon and Maria Tsilinikou.
“The policy of our country is not determined by publications but by actions in the field. In the last six months, Greece has launched the international competition for maritime plots south of Crete, southern Crete 1 and 2, both plots below the Peloponnese. We proceeded with the maritime spatial planning, which has been pending for years and proceeded to the National Maritime Parks in the southern Aegean 1 – southern Cyclades and the Ionian Sea. Everyone, on both sides of the Atlantic, recognize that our country has an energy role that has been upgraded. We have the FSRU, we have the Chickpea and American gas that, through the vertical axis and with our key role in connections, goes to the countries to the north, disconnecting them from Russian gas, we have the June European Council with its explicit position on its non -existent. Turquoisewe act with determination and in practice, “the minister replied to a question about the illegal Turkish and the recent Bloomberg post.
“So, this leading role in the energy sector in the Eastern Mediterranean is geostatically upgrading our country, and it is natural to provoke reactions from those who see that our balances and our country are changing, which in 2019 was a mere gas recipient, and now it is a node.
The Minister, referring to the competition for the granting of the right of research and exploitation hydrocarbon In maritime areas and the manifest interest of oil giants, he said he was “moderately optimistic”, and, as he said, “it is clear that all this noise is not reinforcing. But in fact oil companies have proven that what is in principle important is whether the deposits are commercially exploitable. ” In terms of current prices, Mr Papastavrou described as a “first priority for us” the reduction in energy costs for the consumer and business, therefore, as he said, in early September, when the task force of the European Commission to reduce the gap in electricity prices between EU northern countries and Eastern Europe, “Greece will submit specific proposals so as to further reduce the difference and continue to see this decline.” Indeed, as he noted, “the intervention of the Greek Prime Minister was needed, Kyriakou Mitsotakisin a letter sent in January and created for the first time the Task Force, which met in June with all the administrators of the area, to officially recognize, as well as the European Commissioner responsible, that there was a problem. “
In closing, Mr. Papastavrou pointed out that “if you look at the prices of August ’24 between northern Europe and Southeast Europe and in August ’25, this distance has converged and certainly did not repeat the phenomenon. So the first goal that existed, not to take this take -off of the difference, was achieved. “