Commission proposals go “in the good direction of Portugal’s proposals”
ANDThe long statement at the end of an informal summit of the heads of the Union (EU) Government dominated by a European debate among the 27 that should be the bloc’s response to the energy and price crisis, António Costa began by “Truly served to prepare the Council” in October, where, where, then, yes, decisions are going to be made.
“Today, as it was a day, to search was known. It was a day of exploration of solutions and work orientation days that we don’t want to take away from here in the next 20 and 2, as long as they come in the next 20 and 2 as well as they can go out to meetings simultaneous meetings of the energy ministers that will take place”, he said.
According to the Prime Minister, “it was possible to generate a very broad consensus around the general lines that the President of the Commission”, Ursula von der Leyen, presented to the leaders of the 27 “as a work program between now and the European Council” of within two weeks.
“And I would like to welcome the fact that the proposals that the President of the Commission presents do not make good sense of the proposals that we have to present, with a view to a maximum price for gas, with a view to developing the platforms for joint purchases of gas and also in order to strengthen the unity of the energy market, namely through the development of EU interconnections”, declared.
Regarding the majority of States, a ceiling for the extended price of member-members, among which it started as a position that had a strong distribution in the Council, no longer defended a wide selection, there are already 15 Member States that defend it. expressly”.
The prime minister also noted that even “one of the countries that already accepts that the maximum price for gas is chosen, which is very different from the pipeline”, refusing to reveal which one, but sources that were known from the Netherlands .
“What if we supply the policy with a fair price of the pipeline price combined with the price of a ‘pipeline’ gas to be combined at very tight prices to have a very fair price”, if.
António Costa then underlines the need to “preserve the Internal Market portfolio”, one of the 200 ‘hottest’ toughs at the Prague summit, given the criticism from several Member States of the plan to ‘inject’ a thousand euros into companies for the help address energy prices.
“On the other hand, several Member States followed my position in the sense that it is necessary to ensure, as happened in the [crise provocada pela] Covid-19, the phased United States can all be aligned as companies in this very difficult phase that will face the brutal highs of energy costs, he said.
According to the Prime Minister, “letting this go exclusively to each State, because they have a significant capacity to create the first States, there are States that have a lower measured capacity and cannot serve the market more and more significantly or cannot individually” .
Costa did not guarantee that he had “nothing to censor”, he insisted that what he has to say is that the EU, in order to preserve a message from the Internal Market, has to guarantee everyone the same terms.
“It is not within the same internal market, where companies compete with each other and compete on an equal level of companies, they must have a Member State that has the ability to take 200 million euros for all their possibilities, and thus be able to companies on an equal footing with companies based in other Member States that do not compete for a 200 million euro fundraiser for companies that compete with Germans”, he said.
In the Commission, the President of the European Commission, Urs der Leyen, third proposal of the EU gas leader an intervention to limit prices in the natural market, also advocating acquisition and joint management at European level.
In the letter sent to the heads of government and state of the EU with a view to holding the summit in Prague, Ursula der Leyen today proposed a “roadmap with new actions” for the composite bloc to face the energy crisis, which immediately involves work “in together with the Member States to develop an intervention to limit prices in the natural gas market”.
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