“Late measure. Europe handmaid of the great powers”
There European Commission responds to the continuous increases in energy prices with the proposal of a price limit dynamic and temporary, definitely softer version than the old-fashioned cap price. The Brussels strategy provides more constraints on Member States and price volatilitygreater solidarity in the event of furniture shortages and the prospect of a reference index that acts as a counterpoint to the much-critical Ttf, the Amsterdam stock exchange.
I details will be known if an agreement in principle is reached, said Ursula von der Leyen. but the road is all uphill. They don’t give up Holland, Germany and Austria – renamed the hawks of the north – and there is the risk of a new one summit clash European, on the agenda tomorrow and Friday.
“Today it is difficult to assess the real impact of a measure like this, as it is late” – comments the Member of the European Parliament Massimiliano Salini. “The andaffected by this delay they are already seeing each other dramatically: many are evaluating the possibility of delocalizing the productions towards areas of the world where energy costs less and will probably cost less in the future too ”. “A delay – he adds – that we hope will come ccompensated by the goodness of interventions that the basis of the contents of the proposal, as it was presented at this stage, is not yet sufficient to make people breathe a sigh of relief.
There vagueness on the subject of price is not regulated counterbalanced from the excellent interventions on the theme of purchases and shared storage, on solidarity between countries, why the problem is more at the source: find the raw material on the market decisive for European manufacturing, to then build pricing policies that are less danceable than those that appear to be contained in the proposal “.
What emerges is a Europe not very cohesive, hostage to herself. Above all – says Salini – “it is aEurope that does not have the times of global challengesit is a Europe that lives from handmaid of the great powers, which does not have the decision-making pace of great power. It is always late, and internally there are whims between countries that are very often the children of the poor – we must now admit – German leadership, which despite being the bearer of the greatest European is not really thanks bearer of real leadership, capable of uniting the entire continent. And the consequences are these ”.