The Polish EU Presidency, to be held in the second half of 2011, chose EU external energy policy as one of its main priorities, aiming at strengthening it and thus improving energy security of the Member States.

This focus creates a need for a public debate on the causes and potential solutions to the problem, especially considering its complexity and linkage with numerous other EU policies, climate and development ones among others.

The conference "Energy security – Polish, European and Global Perspectives" will serve as a forum for discussion about energy security and energy solidarity of the European Union as well as necessary conditions for energy cooperation between the EU and developing countries that would contribute to the eradication of poverty in the poorest countries.

The conference will feature energy experts, environmentalists from energy exporting countries and EU and national officials. It is organised by Bankwatch together with Polish Green Network, the Polish Climate Coalition, and the Heinrich Boell Foundation.

More information is available in the conference invitation (pdf).

You can register here. (Registration closes on May 20, 2011.)

NGO representatives who are interested in participating in a workshop on energy security on May 25 can contact the event organisers for more information.