Dan Jørgensen

Oh, I forgot.

So, um, last week, the EU's Dan Jørgensen, who's in charge of energy, whatever, he's the energy commissioner, he came out and said that they were going to delay the implementation of the EU methane import rule.

And the US and Qatar and other countries had sent multiple letters to the EU saying they can't comply with this, they won't comply with it, so maybe you're gonna have to look somewhere else for LNG, uh, but we're not gonna do this.

And so instead they said, "Okay, we'll just delay it." But he said, "It's absolutely only going to be for one year.

And also, by the way, w- and we could talk ab- more about that as well, the, the more narrowly speaking, the political economy of this.

I mean, there'd been, it'd been a sort of hot potato that various, uh, climate energy ministers had been passing around between each other, this licensing round, because there was a sense, and we know these kinds of, uh, discourses from the UK, of course, but that the Danish North Sea, like the, like the, the British North Sea, is a declining basin with, you know, limited, uh, potential for future extraction, declining revenues, risks, uh, around increasing decommissioning costs and stranded assets.

And so there's this sense that actually was quite a risky thing to, to go for this, uh, licensing round and to, to issue new licenses.

And I guess government ministers didn't want to be the, all of them, you know...

But I want to go further with this.

There's one issue I brought to the attention of the housing commissioner, Dan Jørgensen, in the chamber here in Strasbourg on, on, on Tuesday, and I asked him to go back and look at it again.

Because I think in an area, and it's, it's true in the northeast as well, in many parts of the country, there's another area I think the committee should look at, and that's the issue of vulture funds and the effect they're having on the price of property.

Speculators are still coming in, Adrian, in this country, still buying up, uh, distressed debt and turning round and putting pressure on people in terms of rents, and indeed putting pressure on people who are trying to buy a house for the first time in a scheme that's perhaps coming from a developer that's in a, in a distressed debt situation.

I-- We don't have the ability to buy from France because we don't have that interconnector.

And with Dan Jørgensen, the, um, EU Commissioner for Energy, I have a very tough discussion together with the Central and, uh, Eastern representatives, because you couldn't let one country, doesn't matter her name, to struggle and to work against one principle of the common market because they don't invest in a project of twenty kilometers of, um, of energy transmission.

It's, it's, it's, it's, it's impossible, and I couldn't accept that.

And I don't want to say because I'm not, I'm not so loved in, uh, in Vienna about my attitude related to them and the fact that they, they decouple Central and Eastern Europe.

Let's call him that.

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