The international impact of the blackout in the Iberian Peninsula continues to hover over the congress of the European People's Party in Valencia.
Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, has urged the President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, for more European funding to strengthen the energy infrastructures of member states to prevent a recurrence as in Spain and Portugal.
With the German leader in the audience, Mitsotakis has recalled the recommendations from Mario Draghi's report to strengthen Europe and highlighted two of them. The first one, to create a truly European capital market to prevent investment leakage to the US. And the second, "we have tragically seen it in Spain and Portugal in recent hours, and it is the need for an integrated European energy market." According to the Greek Prime Minister, "electric infrastructures are European public assets and should be financed as such," he stated addressing Von der Leyen.
The Greek leader has called for this effort, "to enhance the competitiveness of the European economy and also to ensure the security of our energy systems."
Mitsotakis, highly applauded by the rest of the EPP parties, has shown support for the host, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and emphasized that the European economy "needs reforms that we have to undertake in our countries without waiting for Brussels to do them for us." "It is us in our countries who have to confront the populists," he stated. He has claimed the Greek economic growth under his leadership and the surplus in public accounts.