Resumen de Reassessing the Role and Identity of the European Investment Bank

Daniela Felisini

• The President of the Commission Ursula von Der Leyen’s State of the EU address (14 September 2022) introduced a new, or renewed, role for the Union in the fields of energy and innovation policies. The President spoke not only of diversification of energy supplies, but also of direct support to the development of new sources, such as hydrogen: “Hydrogen can be a game changer for Europe. We need to move our hydrogen economy from niche to scale. With REPowerEU, we have doubled our 2030 target to produce ten million tons of renewable hydrogen in the EU, each year.