24/06/2020 (Agence Europe) – Fourteen Member States (Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Spain and Sweden) and the European Commission have signed the ‘Memorandum of Split’ to establish a long-term cooperation framework for advancing the energy transition of the islands of the European Union, the Croatian Presidency of the EU Council announced on Wednesday 24 June. Prepared and coordinated by Zagreb, which had promised to strengthen support for clean energy in islands (see EUROPE 12396/8), this Memorandum of Understanding is an extension of the ‘Valletta Declaration’ of 18 May 2017, which was designed to help EU islands reduce their dependence on imported energy by making better use of their own renewable energy sources and adopting more modern and innovative energy systems. See Memorandum of Understanding: https://bit.ly/31egRXg (DG)