The Greens/EFA have voted against the REGI Committee’s opinion to the TEN-E (energy infrastructure regulation) revision. The Regulation gives guidelines on which energy infrastructure projects benefit from PCI list status, meaning the chance to benefit from EU public funds in the Connecting Europe Facility. It was hoped the revision now going through the European Parliament would align the outdated TEN -E regulation with both Paris Climate Goals and the European Green Deal. A vital step to ensure the EU can deliver on carbon neutrality by 2050. MEPs from both EPP and RENEW voted in favour of using public money to continue to fund fossil gas infrastructure.Ciarán Cuffe Green Party MEP and shadow rapporteur for the REGI opinion to the TEN-E Revision said: I am very disappointed that Renew and EPP backed by ECR, ID and some S&D members have chosen to support further subsidies for fossil gas infrastructure in the TEN-E revision in the REGI Committee today. We are in a climate emergency. Public money should not be used to support the fossil fuel industry but instead put into renewable energy development. The TEN-E revision has become a missed opportunity to plan a European energy network to take us to climate neutrality. As Greens, we fought hard to keep support for fossil gas out of the opinion. We also tried to introduce more transparency and stakeholder participation in the PCI list process, but were largely overruled on both counts.Mr Cuffe went on to say "Today's vote is concerning - it does not show the way to a just transition, and it flies in the face of our climate neutrality goals. Certain political groups are not taking the climate crisis seriously. In voting to keep supporting fossil fuels they leave communities with stranded assets. They have dropped the ball on tackling the climate crisis."ENDSreleased 15.6.21Image © Greens/EFA 2020