The EU said Wednesday it wants to boost energy links between France and Spain as part of a bloc-wide push to secure power supplies, months after a massive outage hit the Iberian Peninsula.

Spain and neighbouring Portugal have often accused France of dragging its feet on building infrastructure to better connect them with Europe's continental grid.

"I'm probably not offending anybody by saying that sometimes France has been somewhat reluctant to have more interconnections," Dan Jorgensen, the European Union's commissioner for energy, told a press conference in Brussels.

The commission presented Wednesday plans to speed up permitting and coordinate planning of cross-border grid projects, which it says are crucial to support the green energy transition and reduce high energy prices affecti

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