Pressed to act, Brussels proposes to cap the price of Russian gas
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Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, is gradually lifting the veil on emergency energy measures.
Correspondent in Brussels
The President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, would no doubt have preferred to wait for her big back-to-school meeting – the traditional State of the Union speech on September 14 – to make new proposals on the prices of energy. Only, the context is such – grumbling among European citizens against a backdrop of declining purchasing power, the first shutdowns of factories strangled by costs that have become astronomical, prospects of a shortage of gas this winter – that the former German Defense Minister was forced to revise his plans.
For the past few days, she has been gradually lifting the veil on the emergency measures that should be presented to EU ambassadors and then to European energy ministers on September 9. “VDL” was more specific on Friday, on the sidelines of a meeting in Germany with parliamentarians from the CDU-CSU, his political family.
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