Can the European Union strengthen its competitiveness and security without cheap fossil fuels, miraculous technologies or a fully liberalised energy market? At the Europe Future Forum, leading experts tackled this question – read on for their answers
On 16 September 2025, during the Europe Future Forum 2025 debate ‘Energy – Tech – Geopolitics Nexus’, Martin Ehl, chief analyst at Hospodářské Noviny, moderated a discussion on Europe’s energy future. The panellists were Adomas Audickas, deputy chief executive officer for bioenergy at MHP and former deputy minister of economy of Lithuania, Frank Arnauts, ambassador and head of the Belgian EU strategic policy unit at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belgium, Andrej Nosko, researcher and visiting lecturer at Matej Bel University, and Maciej Zaniewicz, senior analyst at the European Programme of Forum Energii.
Martin Ehl: I would like to start with a quick, decisive question before we go into the deeper discussion. What could be the next European high-tech innovation that can help increase our competitiveness, now that China has surpassed us in green tech?
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