I was invited last Monday to a seminar organised by the French government as part of the presidency of the EU on the theme of energy security. A lot of heavy hitters speaking: former IEA boss Mandil chaired the whole process, current IEA boss Tanaka spoke, as did the CEOs of E.ON, Total or Dow Europe, various high level EU Commission members and EU ministers. Here are some notes of what I found interesting in the first part of the conference (I missed the second half, but part of it was a summary of the first part for ministers, and the other part was ministerial speeches).

No media was authorised at the meeting, so this is an exclusive summary, which the organisers in the French ministry of industry have kindly allowed me to post.