Who else sees the term “Franco-Spanish” as somewhat…odd
We should rather introduce better gas stockpile policies and decrease our dependence on Russia. Maybe one can introduce an emergency mechanism that allows to compete with other players globally when it comes to prices.
The Nine being the “This is fine” gang that has given us the wonder of stability that was the last decade (/s), plus the baltics.
France/Spain want the EU to collectivise gas purchases and other strategic asset purchases as reserves for the bloc* as it was shown to work well with things like vaccines.
>Austria, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Latvia and the Netherlands
The ‘fuck you I got mine’ group
> argue that there should be short term measures to help the most vulnerable through the price hike, but that Europe should refrain from far-reaching reforms of its energy market.
They didn’t have any problem with long term reform when they expected Greece to completely change their policy before supporting them through a crisis…
RemindMe! 5 years
This is why the EU is so shit sometimes. We have a joint electricity grid but national policies dictate each country’s energy policy. This means that some countries, who care about the stability of the electrical grid, still have to suffer instability because there are other countries who don’t care about the stability of the electrical grid. I think it’s especially rich of Germany to shit on Greece for decades because of their lack of financial stability when they can’t even bother to care for their own electrical stability.
I was told once the UK left the EU would be smooth sailing to federalism…..can’t even agree a covid budget or electricity reforms.
When reading their response in the article it actually quite measured and fair. They are still moving towards 15% electricity interconnection by 2030 while supporting the Commissions stance at alleviating the short term pressure on the current market.
The title Euractiv chose and many of the comments on this thread seem rather inflammatory and divisive compared to the article itself.
I think if they hold an EU summit they might be able to persuade the nine countries who have openly rejected this plan to move towards a higher goal of electricity interconnectivity.
> France and Spain have called for decoupling electricity prices from the gas market, seeing as unfair to consumers the difference between what they are having to pay compared to the “ultra low cost” of nuclear energy and renewables.
What does “decoupling” mean? Do they want nuclear energy and renewables to subsidize expensive gas imports? If that’s the case, I understand why Denmark wouldn’t be in favour. We have a lot of wind power, and it is projected to become even cheaper. But at the same time we use close to no gas as our homes aren’t heated with it.
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Who else sees the term “Franco-Spanish” as somewhat…odd
We should rather introduce better gas stockpile policies and decrease our dependence on Russia. Maybe one can introduce an emergency mechanism that allows to compete with other players globally when it comes to prices.
The Nine being the “This is fine” gang that has given us the wonder of stability that was the last decade (/s), plus the baltics.
France/Spain want the EU to collectivise gas purchases and other strategic asset purchases as reserves for the bloc* as it was shown to work well with things like vaccines.
>Austria, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Latvia and the Netherlands
The ‘fuck you I got mine’ group
> argue that there should be short term measures to help the most vulnerable through the price hike, but that Europe should refrain from far-reaching reforms of its energy market.
They didn’t have any problem with long term reform when they expected Greece to completely change their policy before supporting them through a crisis…
RemindMe! 5 years
This is why the EU is so shit sometimes. We have a joint electricity grid but national policies dictate each country’s energy policy. This means that some countries, who care about the stability of the electrical grid, still have to suffer instability because there are other countries who don’t care about the stability of the electrical grid. I think it’s especially rich of Germany to shit on Greece for decades because of their lack of financial stability when they can’t even bother to care for their own electrical stability.
I was told once the UK left the EU would be smooth sailing to federalism…..can’t even agree a covid budget or electricity reforms.
When reading their response in the article it actually quite measured and fair. They are still moving towards 15% electricity interconnection by 2030 while supporting the Commissions stance at alleviating the short term pressure on the current market.
The title Euractiv chose and many of the comments on this thread seem rather inflammatory and divisive compared to the article itself.
I think if they hold an EU summit they might be able to persuade the nine countries who have openly rejected this plan to move towards a higher goal of electricity interconnectivity.
> France and Spain have called for decoupling electricity prices from the gas market, seeing as unfair to consumers the difference between what they are having to pay compared to the “ultra low cost” of nuclear energy and renewables.
What does “decoupling” mean? Do they want nuclear energy and renewables to subsidize expensive gas imports? If that’s the case, I understand why Denmark wouldn’t be in favour. We have a lot of wind power, and it is projected to become even cheaper. But at the same time we use close to no gas as our homes aren’t heated with it.