Right of reply: Erik Bergkvist, S&D MEP and shadow rapporteur

Dear EUobserver,

In an opinion piece by Global Witness, Hypocrisy of S&D and Left MEPs on fossil-fuel gas pipelines it is argued that I, in my position as an S&D rapporteur, don't have a clear stance on fossil fuels in the negotiations on the EU energy infrastructure (also called TEN-E). That is far from the truth.

I have a clear mandate from my group to do everything I can to keep fossil fuel out of the revised legislation.