The energy ministers of the European Union (EU) will meet in an extraordinary Council on September 30 to discuss the urgent measures that the European Commission will present this Wednesday to respond to the escalation in energy prices.
The announcement was made on Tuesday by the Czech presidency of the Council of the EU, with the Minister of Industry of the Czech Republic, Jozef Síkela, posting on the social network. twitter that, “on September 30, [os ministros europeus da tutela] He will finish what he started last week.”
Po domluvě s Evropskou komisí a dalšími členskými státy jsem rozhodl, že na konci září v Bruselu dokončíme to, co jsme začali minulý týden. On 30.9. svolávám další mimořádné jednání Rady ministrů pro energetiku. Projednáme na ni návrhy Komise řešení vysokých cen energií.
— Jozef Sikela (@JozefSikela) September 13, 2022
I have just called a new extraordinary Energy Council to discuss the Commission’s proposals to deal with high energy prices. The Czech presidency, the Member States and the Commission are ready to work together,” said Jozef Síkela, in the Twitter post of him.
The announcement comes a day before the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, specify urgent measures for the EU to deal with the current energy crisiswhich will be announced in his third speech on the State of the Union, in the framework of the plenary session of the European Parliament, in the French city of Strasbourg.
The idea will be, in the extraordinary Council of Energy Ministers of the EU, to give the ‘green light’ to the proposals of the community executive.
Last Friday, the EU energy ministers held an extraordinary Council meeting in Brussels to discuss possible emergency measures to be applied at the EU level to mitigate the effects of rising prices in the energy sector.
Energy ministers put pressure on Brussels. They want proposals on the curb on the price of imported gasoline and taxes on profits “in the next few days”
In the end, the European Commission promised “unprecedented measures for an unprecedented situation” in the EU of energy crisis, which will cover “all fronts” and will be presented on Wednesday to make the prices of energy services more flexible.
Portugal generally agreed with the emergency measures discussed in Brussels to deal with prices in the energy sector, although considering that some can still be “tweaked”, Environment and Climate Action Minister Duarte Cordeiro said.
Earlier, last Wednesday, the European Commission already put some ideas on the table, including the put a ceiling on the profits of low-cost electricity companies and a “solidarity contribution” from fossil fuel companies, in addition to setting a price cap on gas imports by pipeline from Russia to the European Union, according to a working document published at the time.
The working document drawn up by the community executive as a contribution to the last Energy Council also included two other proposals: a binding objective to reduce electricity consumption and the provision of liquidity support by the Member States to energy service companies that they face problems for this market. volatility.
Geopolitical tensions over the war in Ukraine have affected the European energy marketsince the EU imports 90% of the gas it consumes, with Russia being responsible for around 45% of these imports, at varying levels between Member States.
In Portugal, Russian gas represented, in 2021, less than 10% of the total imported.
Source: Observadora
