02/10/2009 (Agence Europe) - At a press conference after a meeting with the president of Latvia, Valdis Zatlers, in Riga on Thursday 1 October, the president of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek (EPP, Poland) stressed the importance of a common EU energy policy as a mechanism for strengthening its member states' economic independence. The former Polish foreign minister said that the common energy policy should focus on boosting interconnections and diversification of electricity and gas...