Summary of the round table held on 7 November 2007 by the French Foundation for Political Innovation on ‘The EU’s energy requirements: the importance of the Black Sea region’. Participants included Andreas Schockenhoff (Bundestag member and Vice-President of the CDUCSU group), Agnija Rasa (member of the cabinet of the European Commissioner for Energy) and Alexandre Vulic (Deputy Director of the Office of East European Affairs at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs).