{"id":26239,"date":"2026-03-19T07:43:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T07:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/26239\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T07:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T07:43:19","slug":"iran-war-turns-eu-leaders-summit-into-an-energy-showdown-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/26239\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran war turns EU leaders\u2019 summit into an energy showdown \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe agreement is that the measures in terms of the energy transition \u2014 decarbonization, clean homegrown energy \u2014 is the right path to continue,\u201d said a senior EU official, who was granted anonymity to disclose details about the summit preparations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But \u201cleaders want to see concrete measures to reduce the prices also in the shorter term,\u201d the official added. \u201cI think here there&#8217;s no secret that there are different positions on how this should be tackled.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2263863497-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8069889\"  \/>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at a press conference in Brussels on March 2, 2026. | Dursun Aydemir\/Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Short term vs. long term<\/p>\n<p>The EU executive, for its part, has some ideas. In a letter to leaders on Monday, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen largely passed the buck to national governments, suggesting they make use of existing EU rules to unleash subsidies and cut electricity taxes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her proposals for EU-level measures tend toward longer-term solutions, promising legislative action for the efficient use of power grids, financial aid for energy-intensive industries, and steps to prevent the bloc\u2019s carbon price from spiking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For countries preferring to focus on the longer term, that\u2019s the right approach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the initiatives being taken on the European level \u2026 will help for the medium and longer term to speed up the energy transition, which is the only real solution to this,\u201d Dutch Climate Minister Stientje van Veldhoven said in an interview. \u201cBut for shorter-term measures, it&#8217;s more up to the national [governments] to assess what&#8217;s most appropriate.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe agreement is that the measures in terms of the energy transition \u2014 decarbonization, clean homegrown energy \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6366,12477,12478,12479,2032,912,12480,154,2276,375,911,5632,537,3894,1601,34,37,384,207,49,6286,567,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-26239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-antonio-costa","9":"tag-austria","10":"tag-decarbonization","11":"tag-donald-tusk","12":"tag-electricity","13":"tag-emissions","14":"tag-emissions-trading-system","15":"tag-energy","16":"tag-energy-markets","17":"tag-energy-prices","18":"tag-fossil-fuels","19":"tag-fuels","20":"tag-germany","21":"tag-giorgia-meloni","22":"tag-industry","23":"tag-iran","24":"tag-israel","25":"tag-italy","26":"tag-markets","27":"tag-middle-east","28":"tag-poland","29":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","30":"tag-war-in-iran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116254723432570918","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}