Brussels unveils its emergency plan

Correspondent in Brussels

The standoff is dangerously tense between the Europeans and the Russian President, Vladimir Putin. While he threatened Wednesday morning from Vladivostok to cut off all supplies of gas, oil and coal if price caps were to be imposed on Russia, Brussels drew up its emergency plan a few hours later intended to contain the crisis. energy. The Ministers of the Twenty-Seven, in charge of energy, will debate it on Friday.

Among the five components of this system is this ceiling price for Russian gas purchased by Europeans, described as “dumb” by the ruler of the Kremlin. At what level could it be set? The President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has promised to put a proposal on the table next Tuesday when the subject does not enjoy consensus among the Twenty-Seven, especially in Berlin or even in Prague, where it is estimated that ‘this is more of a sanction against Russia than“a real solution…