France may be in for a hard time from Spain and Portugal over the European Commission's proposal, at the the European Council of 23-24 October. In its May 2014 energy security strategy, to which last June's European Council reacted favourably, the Commission proposed to increate the target for energy interconnection from 10% to 15% by 2030.
Yet the Iberian peninsula is still isolated in terms of electricity despite Inelfe, the Franco-Spanish project under way that is expected to double the…