Press Release: Mario Monti reports his initial findings regarding the project on electricity interconnection between France and Spain to Commissioner Piebalgs

In the margin of the Council meeting on energy, Commissioner Andris Piebalgs met the European coordinator, Mr Mario Monti, who gave him a report of his initial conclusions regarding the project on electricity interconnection between France and Spain. Mr Monti – who had just attended a working meeting, in preparation for the next summit meeting between France and Spain, with the ministers responsible: Mr Borloo and Mr Clos – told the Commissioner that although the project was highly complex, particularly at the political level, he sensed that things were moving in the right direction.