Invited to address the European Parliament’s Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) Committee on the priorities of the Belgian Presidency of the EU Council (see EUROPE B13320A9), the Belgian Minister for Energy, Tinne Van der Straeten, once again emphasised the importance of developing electricity networks and answered specific questions from MEPs on the rise of hydrogen in the EU and the end of Russian fossil fuel imports.
For the Minister, the priority for the coming years is to “build a...