Satisfaction in Athens on the Euro-compromise on gas, but the “devil hides in the details”
Key role in order to have a political agreement in principle for an intervention in its values gasleaving it open ceiling for gas used for power generationseems to have played out in her background Summit The Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Given his good knowledge of technical data, but also his long insistence on an intervention in gas prices, Mr. Mitsotakis was one of the European leaders who came forward so that there would be a political agreement in principle at the level of the leaders of EU countries, which, of course, should be parameterized and technically finalized by Union energy ministers in the coming weeks. Because, as Mr. Mitsotakis said yesterday, if the matter turns to the leaders of the E.U. pending the next Session, this will be bad news.
“Beyond responsibility for the completion of discussions and the implementation of his plans here easier Council it goes to the energy ministers, who will meet next week. Where the devil really hides in the details”Mr. Mitsotakis emphasized at the press conference that followed the Council meeting, clarifying that “I cannot tell you that I am 100% sure that there will be a technical agreement, but there is no political mandate from the European leaders and there is no different” .
Mr. Mitsotakis, after all, was one of the leaders who had led the effort for a European solution to the issue of gas costs, submitting proposals seven months ago to the president of the Commission. Ursula von der Leyen. Hence for Greece it was important not to let another critical appointment pass without a solution, since it seemed that the European processes to intervene in the cost of gas prices resulted in the drop in its international price.
Of course, not everything was easy, given the Germany’s tough stance and the countries around it. Mr. Mitsotakis, however, had contacts with him German Chancellor Scholz on the sidelines of the Synod, while the intervention of the outgoing Italian Prime Minister seems to have played a catalytic role in the direction of the agreement Marios Draghi at the last Summit he attended. “You know that until yesterday there were reactions from certain countries, but our argument convinced even the most skeptical to activate a set of interventions to contain prices”Mr. Mitsotakis emphasized at the press conference.
From now on, of course, and given that the devil hides in the details, as the Prime Minister said, the ball is passed to the Ministers of Energy, who are called to technically pull the “chestnuts out of the fire” and not divert the momentum they have create the European leaders. Nobody, after all, at this stage wants new turmoil, as a disagreement between the ministers at a technical level is capable of pushing up the new international prices of natural gas and it is hard to imagine that a side that took such a risk, in this one. at the moment and ahead of winter.
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