{"id":5477,"date":"2026-03-09T20:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/5477\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:36:09","slug":"germany-italy-and-belgium-to-host-eu-leaders-meeting-on-energy-prices-red-tape-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/5477\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany, Italy and Belgium to host EU leaders\u2019 meeting on energy prices, red tape \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While cutting red tape has long been a priority for governments, a sudden surge in energy prices has sent EU leaders scrambling for ways to avert a full-blown crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The price of a barrel of oil broke the $100 mark on Monday as the war in the Middle East \u2014 sparked by U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran \u2014 entered its second week.<\/p>\n<p>The finance ministers of\u00a0Canada,\u00a0France,\u00a0Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.S. and the U.K. held\u00a0talks on Monday to coordinate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/g7-finance-ministers-weigh-using-emergency-oil-reserves-amid-soaring-prices\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a\u00a0possible\u00a0release of strategic oil reserves<\/a> to head off the prospect of an inflation shock rocking the world economy.<\/p>\n<p>Germany, Belgium and Italy also previously hosted a get-together to align their positions and set the agenda ahead of February&#8217;s European Council in Alden Biesen, which focused on cutting red tape for businesses.<\/p>\n<p>After that EU leaders&#8217; summit, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she would present an action plan for how to bolster the bloc&#8217;s economy at the March meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While cutting red tape has long been a priority for governments, a sudden surge in energy prices has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,218,1406,172,3609,176,487,2637,300,396,3712],"class_list":["post-5477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-crisis","tag-energy-prices","tag-germany","tag-inflation","tag-italy","tag-middle-east","tag-oil","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-war","tag-war-in-iran"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116201139882317054","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}