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The Energy Potential of the Baltic Sea: Is There a Space for a Regional Innovation Valley and Closer Cooperation Among the Countries of the Region?

Roundtable in the European Parliament Members Restaurant from 12H00 to 13H30 CET

Welcome & Closing remarks

Riho TERRAS MEP
Member of the ITRE Committee

Statements

Jarosław BRODA
Board Member of Baltic Power

Wadia FRUERGAARD
Head of Policy Positioning & Public Funding, Global Public Affairs, Vestas

Frank UMBACH
International Consultant and Expert for Global Energy Security, Geopolitics & Security Policy

Ronald LIESKE
Director of the Managing Authority and Joint Secretariat, Interreg Baltic Sea Region

Dr. Horst HEITZ
Secretary General of Taxpayers Association of Europe

 

Moderated by

Tomasz WROBLEWSKI
President of Warsaw Enterprise Institute

The Baltic Sea evolves to a greater economic and geopolitical importance for the countries of the region. The energy potential of the Baltic Sea offers prospects for further development and better cooperation between Poland, the Baltic and Nordic countries. Natural resources as well as regional wind conditions and tides bring the incentive for the analysis of investment opportunities in the Baltic basin in numerous areas. At the same time, in the dimension of energy and physical security, we identify many more challenges that somehow force cooperation between the democratic countries of the region. Will the Baltic Sea have a common industrial and energy policy? Does the Baltic Sea have a chance to become the largest regional innovation valley under the Net Zero Industry Act?

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