Twenty representatives of five Eastern Partnership countries – Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine – met on 23 October to discuss regional energy infrastructure projects. The meeting, which brought together representatives of the countries’ energy ministries, gas and electricity transmission system operators and oil infrastructure operators, was organised by the Energy Community as part of the EU4Energy Governance project.
Among the projects discussed were proposals aimed at connecting the Southern Caucasus region and Ukraine with their neighbouring countries to the west. As a result of the meeting, the participants agreed to reopen the call for candidate projects of regional and strategic significance within the EU4Energy Governance project.
The EU4Energy Initiative is part of the Eastern Partnership. In this specific initiative, the European Union works with the six Eastern Partner countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine), as well as the five states of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan), to improve energy supply, security and connectivity, as well as to promote energy efficiency and the use of renewables in the region.
