25/04/2023 (Agence Europe) – At the second North Sea Summit in Ostend on Tuesday 25 April (see EUROPE 13168/14), the energy ministers of the participating countries (Belgium, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands, joined by France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Norway and the United Kingdom) signed the Ostend Declaration to make the North Sea ‘Europe’s Green Power Plant’. The aim is to realise cross-border projects and keep the offshore wind industry in Europe. In order to reach the target of 300 gigawatts of offshore generation capacity, each country is committed to increasing its individual generation capacities and is establishing cross-border projects, such as the announced ‘Lionlink’ hybrid interconnection project between the Netherlands and the UK. To see the declaration: https://aeur.eu/f/6j1 (PLD)