I kind of wonder how serious the countries in question are. Like, it might be politically-popular to be seen calling for this, but I don’t see how one is going to make it work.
My vague impression from two articles is that nobody is actually floating a proposal, but rather calling for other parties to figure out a way to make it work. Last article I saw had the EU telling the states calling for it to come up with a proposal. This one has the states calling for the EC to come up with a proposal. I am wondering if maybe the aim is to come back to voters and say “we tried to lower your electric bill, but mean ol’ Brussels wouldn’t do it”.
>It was signed by Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain, and sent on Tuesday evening to European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson.
Will this even work without Germany ? I also don’t see the SE & NL in there.
Won’t this just result in shortages?
I guess it depends on the type of import, but for LNG etc. I’d imagine it is easy to sell it elsewhere, no?
You want price cap on LNG imports? This must be some sort of a joke, surely politicians can’t be that incompetent, right? Right?..
It is important to note that this suggestion wants to expand the price gap that EU pursues for Russian gas to gas from all sources. Greece for example gets a lot of its gas from Azerbaijan, and a gap only to Russian gas won’t help much.
Not a chance the US would allow the EU to put a price cap on US energy exporters.
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I kind of wonder how serious the countries in question are. Like, it might be politically-popular to be seen calling for this, but I don’t see how one is going to make it work.
My vague impression from two articles is that nobody is actually floating a proposal, but rather calling for other parties to figure out a way to make it work. Last article I saw had the EU telling the states calling for it to come up with a proposal. This one has the states calling for the EC to come up with a proposal. I am wondering if maybe the aim is to come back to voters and say “we tried to lower your electric bill, but mean ol’ Brussels wouldn’t do it”.
>It was signed by Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain, and sent on Tuesday evening to European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson.
Will this even work without Germany ? I also don’t see the SE & NL in there.
Won’t this just result in shortages?
I guess it depends on the type of import, but for LNG etc. I’d imagine it is easy to sell it elsewhere, no?
You want price cap on LNG imports? This must be some sort of a joke, surely politicians can’t be that incompetent, right? Right?..
It is important to note that this suggestion wants to expand the price gap that EU pursues for Russian gas to gas from all sources. Greece for example gets a lot of its gas from Azerbaijan, and a gap only to Russian gas won’t help much.
Not a chance the US would allow the EU to put a price cap on US energy exporters.