Press release; Commissioner Piebalgs launches the new Euro-Mediterranean energy partnership

Together with Ministers from the EU Member States and from the Mediterranean partner countries, European Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs launched today the new Euro-Mediterranean energy partnership, at the 5th Euro-Mediterranean Energy Ministerial Conference that is taking place in Limassol, Cyprus. Ministers and the Commissioner endorsed the Ministerial Declaration and its 2008-2013 Priority Action Plan for Euro-Mediterranean cooperation in the field of energy which gives a new impetus to the EU external energy policy in the region.