Cooperation of Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary, not only by the interconnection of gas or electric grids but also by the negotiations of gas prices would be for the sake of Visegrad Region countries and could lead to lower gas prices. This results from the latest analysis presented by the Slovak Atlantic Commission today.
According to the document elaborated by the joint group of experts, the construction of physical infrastructure and better cooperation would help in functioning of common regional energy market. In particular, the north-south interconnection of gas grids would improve security of supplies and open up of spot markets and alternative resources supplies.
One of the recommendations for governments of the four Visegrad countries is also to strenghten up research and development in energetics. The attention should by paid, for example, to research of enviromental-friendly technologies of using coal that the region is oversupplied with, or to biomass research.
The document has been worked out by the expert group and a number of external co-workers within the Visegrad Security Cooperation Initiative (VSCI) project. The aim was to identify shared security and defence interests of the V4 and to analyze the possible tools of the common implementation.
The result of several months of work of two expert groups (transatlantic security, energy security) are two analytic documents with recommendations. Andrej Nosko, Anita Orbán, Wojciech Paczyński and Jakub Jaroš, who are the authors of the document about energy security, agreed on the final version in Bratislava on Monday.
The project, that was organized by the Slovak Atlantic Commission and its partners in the Czech Republic (Jagello 2000), Hungary (International Centre for Democratic Transition) and Poland (Euro-Atlantic Association), was financially supported by the resources of the International Visegrad Fund.
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