News
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EIES launches new risk-based framework for prioritising strategic technologies that improve Europe’s resilience and security
December 10th, 2024
A new brief by the European Initiative for Energy Security (EIES) urges the EU to radically prioritise the development of strategic technologies or technological areas amidst a heightened threat landscape and competitiveness challenges.
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Press Release: Amidst hybrid threats against critical infrastructure, EIES calls for coordinated risk-based assessments and a “security by design” framework for energy and supply chain resilience planning
November 28th, 2024
In response to the European Commission’s public consultation evaluating the EU’s energy security architecture, EIES calls for the upgrade and expansion of electricity infrastructure and embrace of strategic clean energy pathways to limit vulnerability to geopolitical risk.
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Politico Podcast: The challenges to energy security in Europe
Nobember 20th, 2024
EIES' Executive Director joins ESLC-Europe member H.E. Jeppe Kofod, Evan Fuery from Equinor and NATO's James Appathurai to discuss what is needed to future-proof Europe's Energy system.
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Press Release: EIES Welcomes Jannicke Nilsson and Carlo Lazzarini to its Energy Security Leadership Council - Europe (ESLC-E)
October 17th, 2024
The European Initiative for Energy Security (EIES) is pleased to announce the addition of Jannicke Nilsson of Equinor and Carlo Lazzarini of PWO AG to its Energy Security Leadership Council (ESLC), bolstering EIES’ efforts to promote actions to secure a sustainable and resilient energy future for Europe and its global allies.
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Press Release: EIES Applauds the European Council's Vote to Increase Tariffs on Chinese-Made Electric Vehicles
October 4th, 2024
“Defensive measures, including tariffs and foreign direct investment screening, are essential to protecting Europe’s automotive sector in a playing field that has been distorted by billions in subsidies and deliberate overproduction, which has driven aggressive market capture in the electric vehicle sector....”
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Minds on mines: the mineral security imperative for Nato
Aug 23, 2024
Benedikt Franke and Robbie Diamond
NATO admittedly has no shortage of challenges to navigate—including maintaining support for Ukraine, meeting defense spending targets, countering hostile Russian activities, and accelerating the build-up of the defense-industrial base.
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Press Release: EIES High Level Forum launches silo-breaking debate with Commission, NATO and Industrials on fundamentals of energy and supply chain security
July 10, 2024
The European Initiative for Energy Security (EIES) convened a high-level event on Implementing a Whole-System European Energy and Supply Chain Security Strategy at Brussels’ Steigenberger Wiltcher’s Hotel. This pivotal gathering aimed to address the pressing challenges of energy security and supply chain resilience across Europe and allies.
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Press Release: NEW PAPER: “BUILDING ENERGY RESILIENCE FROM THE SEABED UP”
July 7, 2024
As NATO kicks off its Washington Summit, the European Initiative for Energy Security (EIES) publishes a report looking at how Russia has evolved its decades-long strategy of weaponizing energy against the European continent from a broad geopolitical instrument into actual physical attacks.
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Wir brauchen eine klarsichtigere China-Politik
June 3, 2024
Ambassador Joachim Bitterlich and Peter Flory
Die Partnerschaft zwischen Putin und Xi sowie Pekings Streben nach Technologiedominanz bedroht die EU und damit auch den Wohlstand in Deutschland, meinen Joachim Bitterlich und Peter Flory. Sie nennen drei Möglichkeiten, dem entgegenzuwirken.
The partnership between Putin and Xi and China’s quest for technology dominance threaten the European Union and with it, German prosperity. But there are ways to defend our interests and values.
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Podcast: The sweet spot: Between de-risking from China and Europe’s green future
May 17, 2024
Mark Leonard welcomes Robbie Diamond and Janka Oertel to discuss de-risking and the future of Europe’s green industries.
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Podcast: The Jolt: Fail to prepare, prepare to fail
December 18, 2023
The European Energy Security Initiative has just launched and aims to bring together political and industrial leaders to better prepare for potential future crises.
The initiative counts several notable names from the world of politics, the military and industry, including the EU’s former energy commissioner, Andris Piebalgs.
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Press Release: European Initiative for Energy Security Launches Effort to Strengthen Global, Allied Energy and Industrial Supply Chains
December 15, 2023
A new organization driving realistic solutions to secure Europe's energy supplies while supporting the energy transition, strategic autonomy, and prosperity across the continent, the European Initiative for Energy Security (EIES), launched Thursday with a panel of leading voices, including European Commission Executive Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič, and the publication of its inaugural paper.
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A transatlantic opening on green industrial policy?
March 14, 2023
The EU’s pending Net-Zero Industry Act and Critical Raw Materials Act need not be another point of contention between Brussels and Washington. Instead, it could help advance a new era of transatlantic cooperation to secure supply chains essential to our shared economic and national security, write Abigail Wulf and Kaare Nielsen.
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The raw truth of Europe’s raw materials
November 30, 2022
Biden’s ‘Buy America’ plans are unnecessarily restrictive, but the EU can still reap benefits from partnering with North America to diversify its supply chains.
Upcoming Events
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SAFE Summit 2025
April 1-2, 2025, Washington DC
SAFE Summit 2025 will build on the success of both SAFE Summit 2023 and SAFE Summit 2024, growing the audience and prestige of this must-attend event.
Watch highlights from SAFE Summit 2024 on Youtube
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Energy Security Forum
July 2025
Building on the success of EIES’ inaugural high-level event, "Implementing a Whole-System European Energy and Supply Chain Security Strategy" on July 3rd, 2024, EIES will host the Energy Security Forum 2025. Details coming soon.
Past Events
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ESLC-Europe Annual Christmas Dinner
December 12, 2024
EIES convened its Energy Security Leadership Council - Europe for its first in-person gathering in London on December 12th 2024.
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EIES Lunch: NATO-EU Roundtable on Energy Infrastructure Security
November 22, 2024
EIES will host an Allied Energy Infrastructure Security Roundtable with NATO’s ASG for Innovation, Hybrid and Cyber, Jean-Charles Ellermann-Kingombe and the Director General of DG ENER at the European Commission, Ditte Juul Jorgensen, with industry experts spanning energy producers, TSOs, cyber, and technology.
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Webinar: Where do we go from here?
November 22, 2024
EIES brings together experts in an off-the-record setting to discuss mutual areas of interest including: future U.S. energy, climate, and related trade policies and their implications for Europe and European energy security.
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Implementing a Whole-System European Energy and Supply Chain Security Strategy
July 3, 2024
EIES convened a high-level event, "Implementing a Whole-System European Energy and Supply Chain Security Strategy" on July 3rd, 2024. The gathering featured a keynote speech by Maroš Šefčovič, Executive Vice President of the European Commission, Introductory remarks by Albéric Mongrenier, Executive Director, European Initiative for Energy Security and two panels: Building Diverse and Secure Global Supply Chains and Securing European and Allied Energy Infrastructure.
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EIES, SAFE, U.S. State Department Convene Minerals, Energy, and Defense Leaders at Munich Security Conference
February 19, 2024
The discussion focused on actionable strategies that would diversify access to critical minerals, as part of SAFE’s Mineral Investment Network for Vital Energy Security and Transition (MINVEST) partnership with the U.S. Department of State.
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EIES Launch: Developing a Roadmap to Strategic Autonomy and a Competitive Energy Transition
December 14, 2023
On 14 December, the European Initiative for Energy Security (EIES) was launched, with a panel of leading voices including European Commission Executive Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič, as well as Ambassador Réka Szemerkényi, former Hungarian Ambassador to the United Sates, and Andris Piebalgs, Former EU Energy Commissioner, both members of EIES’s Energy Leadership Security Council.