Press conference by Oihane AGIRREGOITIA (RE, ES) and Kamila GASIUK-PIHOWICZ, Co-rapporteurs on Connecting Europe Facility regulation for 2028-2034

10 November 2026

PRESSER European Parliament

00:05 - 01:26
Speaker 1
Thank you very much for being here.  I'll wait two seconds until everybody takes their places.  As you probably know, it's been quite a busy day at Parliament today.  We had quite a few votes in committees on several sectorial files for the next multiannual financial framework, out of which a very important vote that we would like to give you a little bit more details today.  It's the third generation of the Connecting Europe Facility program, which funds cross-border infrastructure projects in energy, transport and now we will give you more details on military mobility as well. 

I'm here with the two rapporteurs from the two committees that are leading on this file, the Committee on Industry and Energy and the Committee on Transport.  So, just to give you a couple of practical details, we have interpretation in English, French, Spanish and Polish.  You are free to listen in any language that you want and to ask a question the same in any of these languages.  So, without further ado, as I said, I'm here with the two co-rapporteurs, Ms. Gasiuk-Pihowicz and Ms. Agirregoitia Martínez, and I'm going to give the floor to Ms. Pihowicz first, please.  Thank you very much. 

I will speak in Polish. 
01:26 - 02:14
Speaker 2
Dzień dobry.  Witam państwa bardzo serdecznie i chciałabym tą konferencję zacząć dosyć nietypowo, bo od pytania, a mianowicie jak to jest w ogóle możliwe, że w Europie przemysł energochłonny płaci za energię dwa razy tyle, ile płaci się za energię w Stanach Zjednoczonych, o połowę więcej niż w Chinach?  I wszyscy wiemy, że to nie jest drobna różnica, że to jest ogromna przewaga naszych rywali.  I kolejne pytanie: jak mamy być w takich warunkach konkurencyjni?  To jest też bardzo duże wyzwanie, z którym my musimy się zmierzyć, bo pojawia się kolejne pytanie: co jako Europa zaniedbaliśmy, że mamy taką sytuację? 

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