EU ‘should’ shift to renewables to finish fossil gas ‘blackmail from war-driving authoritarian regimes’ – Spotlight | EUROtoday
Get real time updates directly on you device, subscribe now.
François Picard is happy to welcome Hannah Neumann, German MEP, Greens/EFA and Chair of EU Parliament’s Delegation for Iran. She provides evaluation on the rising geopolitical instability surrounding Iran, vitality safety, and the EU’s strategic place in an more and more fragmented world order. According to Ms. Neumann, the central concern is just not merely the volatility of negotiations, however their lack of readability and coherence. From her vantage level, “the main problem is that they don’t even have a clear focus on what they are negotiating about”.
She argues that present diplomatic efforts endure from an absence of outlined goals, regarding nuclear coverage, maritime safety within the Strait of Hormuz, or broader regime-related questions. At the identical time, she sheds mild on a crucial blind spot: the systematic exclusion of Iranian civil society from worldwide discourse, exacerbated by digital repression.
Meanwhile, she locations Europe’s vulnerability inside its structural dependence on fossil fuels, which exposes it to geopolitical coercion. The wars within the Middle East and Ukraine “show how interconnected these different conflicts are and how absurd the situation is”.
Case in level: As the EU has reached an answer with Hungary to supply a 90 billion euro lifeline to Ukraine, the oil flowing by the Druzhba pipeline additionally “supports the Russian war economy”. She contends that true political autonomy for the European Union can solely emerge by a decisive transition to renewable vitality: In the meantime, “these war-driving authoritarian regimes can basically blackmail us with their fossil energy”.
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/spotlight/20260423-eu-must-shift-to-renewables-to-end-fossil-fuel-blackmail-from-war-driving-authoritarian-regimes