Gas prices: why the Commission is dragging its feet


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The 27 energy ministers expect more precise analyzes from the Commission before taking decisions in November. The Commission fears a gas plant.




By Emmanuel Berretta

Robert Habeck (on the left), Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister for the Economy and the Climate, on 24 October.
Robert Habeck (left), Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economics and Climate, 24 October.
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VS’is a confident Robert Habeck who left the Council of European Energy Ministers on Tuesday. “Today, gas prices fell significantly again,” said the German Vice-Chancellor, Federal Minister for Economics and Climate. This is because we have taken political action in recent weeks and months. In fact, the TTF gas price index on the spot market fell to 30 euros per MWh on October 24 and rose to 37 euros on October 25.

Is it still relevant to seek to cap the price of gas, wonder some in Brussels? “There are two subjects, analyzes Agnès Pannier-Runacher, the French Minister for Ecological Transition. A subject of the moment of the market when the price of gas is falling…


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