The European Commission is today launching a new call for proposals for key cross-border EU energy infrastructure projects included on the 4th Union list of Projects of Common Interest (PCIs), to be co-financed through grants worth 785 million EUR from the EU budget. This is the first call for PCIs under the new Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) rules, the European support programme for trans-European infrastructure. When fixing the new CEF-Energy budget for the 2021-2027 period, worth 5.83 billion EUR, the EU acknowledged the key enabling role that energy infrastructure plays in the European Green Deal and the transition to a climate neutral economy. (Source: EC)