Commissioner Hoekstra in Rome to discuss EU’s clean transition and competitiveness
Next Monday and Tuesday, 30 and 31 March, Commissioner for Climate, Net-Zero and Clean Growth, Wopke Hoekstra, will be in Rome, Italy, to discuss the EU’s clean transition and competitiveness with government representatives.
On Monday, the Commissioner will meet with Italian Vice-President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani. In the afternoon, he will hold bilateral meetings with the Minister of Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, and the Minister of Economy and Finance, Giancarlo Giorgetti.
On Tuesday, Commissioner Hoekstra will start the day with an exchange with Minister of Defence, Guido Crosetto, with a focus on the nexus between climate policies and security. He will later attend parliamentary hearings of EU affairs, environment and industrial committees from both the Italian Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. The afternoon will be dedicated to meeting students of the LUISS Guido Carli University, where the Commissioner will deliver a keynote speech and participate in a Q&A session. He will then meet representatives of the Energy Dome project, a first-of-a-kind large scale and long duration energy storage facility using an innovative CO2 Battery technology.