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Spain to support EU Commission’s proposals to tackle high energy prices
(EurActiv, 7 Oct 2022) The European Commission has adopted Madrid’s views on tackling high electricity prices in the European Union, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Thursday.
Talking to the press in Prague, Sánchez referred to the road map put forward by Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen ahead of an informal meeting of EU heads of state and government in the Czech capital, EURACTIV’s partner EFE reported.
Sánchez said that he would back the Commission’s plan because it includes proposals that Spain had demanded even before the war in Ukraine broke out.
“We feel (Spanish positions) reflected in these (EC) proposals, and we are going to defend them and try to share them with the rest of the Member States,” he added.
He referred to the EC’s proposal of a ceiling on gas prices imported by the European Union, joint purchases from third countries, structural reform of the electricity market and the extension of the so-called Iberian derogation to the whole of the EU.
Sánchez praised the meeting of 44 European leaders in the so-called European Political Community, a particularly important gathering, he said, in the framework of the war in Ukraine.
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