The President of the European Council, António Costa, highlighted today that strengthening energy security is fundamental to the EU’s security.
“It is very clear, with this situation in Iran, that the only good way to have stable prices and not depend on others and strengthen our energy security, is to invest more and more in the energy transition, because it is the only way we have to depend on our own energy and this is fundamental for our security”, Costa told Portuguese journalists at the entrance to the European summit in Brussels.
“We have to integrate telecommunications, we have to pursue our simplification agenda, we have to look at the strategic issue of energy prices,” he also said, at a time when the conflict in Iran caused sharp rises in energy prices.
Energy and fuel prices, which have soared in recent weeks due to attacks by the United States and Israel against Iran, are at the top of the European Council’s agenda.
The Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, represents Portugal at the meeting of European leaders.
On February 28, the United States and Israel launched a military offensive against Iran, which responded with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and retaliatory attacks against targets in Israel, US bases and other infrastructure, including energy, in countries in the region such as Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Jordan, Oman and Iraq.
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