Irish minister warns EU must keep UK on side in energy crisis

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  1. Excerpt:

    > Ireland has urged the EU not to alienate the UK in its drive to control energy prices, in case it harms Irish supplies.

    >Ossian Smyth, Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, said the bloc should avoid a “confrontational stance” with the UK in any planned overhaul of its gas and electricity markets, as Ireland is dependent on the UK for much of its energy.

    >“We need to maintain good relationships with the UK,” he told reporters in Luxembourg on Tuesday. “We’re so tightly enmeshed. That’s why we need to cooperate closely and why we don’t want to have a confrontational stance with the UK.”

  2. Nah, Ireland should begin decoupling itself from the UK. The EU shouldn’t continue to make policy on the basis of being dependent on the UK. That just doesn’t make sense after Brexit.

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