{"id":111754,"date":"2025-05-18T13:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T13:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/111754\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T13:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T13:12:07","slug":"portugal-to-demand-eu-put-pressure-on-france-over-power-connectors-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/111754\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal to demand EU put pressure on France over power connectors \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal\u2019s grid is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/mechanics-spain-mega-blackout-politics-cyberattack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">highly integrated with its Spanish neighbor<\/a>, which is how the power outage spread easily westward. Spain, in turn, is connected by just a few lines to France. <\/p>\n<p>Nuclear-friendly France is, according to Spain and Portugal at least, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/spain-portugal-power-blackouts-energy-electricity\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/spain-portugal-power-blackouts-energy-electricity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">delaying new links<\/a> to prevent cheap solar and wind energy from flooding the French market. French grid operator RTE denies this. Both a cable via the Bay of Biscay and an overland powerline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/energy-eu-france-power-grids-climate-economy-cash-local-support\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/energy-eu-france-power-grids-climate-economy-cash-local-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">should address the shortage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrance has no interest in accelerating our interconnections for its nuclear energy,\u201d Carvalho <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/economia\/2025-05-12\/la-ministra-portuguesa-de-energia-francia-no-tiene-interes-en-acelerar-nuestras-interconexiones-por-su-energia-nuclear.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told El Pa\u00eds last week<\/a> in an interview where she also called for pressure from Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving an interconnected system is good for everyone,\u201d a senior EU official explained last month, adding that connections make it easier to manage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/mechanics-spain-mega-blackout-politics-cyberattack\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/mechanics-spain-mega-blackout-politics-cyberattack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dramatic power-supply changes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The European Parliament last week voted in favor of a resolution calling for a major expansion of power connections across the bloc. \u201cThe Iberian blackout shows painfully how vulnerable our grids still are,\u201d Anna St\u00fcrgkh, the lead MEP on the file, told POLITICO.<\/p>\n<p>The Austrian liberal called on the Commission in Brussels to \u201cact decisively to prioritize planning and coordination on grids and storage.\u201d Otherwise, \u201cwe\u2019ll keep lurching from one crisis to the next,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Gavin contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portugal\u2019s grid is highly integrated with its Spanish neighbor, which is how the power outage spread easily westward.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[6659,1312,35,2000,299,2816,36,38,50705,2441,11665,1303,3046,50706,41279,6861,104,47982],"class_list":{"0":"post-111754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-crisis","9":"tag-electricity","10":"tag-energy","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european-politics","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-french-politics","16":"tag-maria-da-graca-carvalho","17":"tag-markets","18":"tag-meps","19":"tag-nuclear-power","20":"tag-portugal","21":"tag-portuguese-politics","22":"tag-repowereu","23":"tag-single-market","24":"tag-spain","25":"tag-spanish-politics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}