The president of the European Commission received today the letter from the Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, through which a European solution is requested to the distortions of the energy market that lead to large discrepancies in the price of electricity between EU countries. This was confirmed today by the press representative of the European Commission Committee, Eric Mamer.
“We will analyze the letter we just received,” said the representative responsible for Energy, Tim McPhee, clarifying that the Commission’s response will come “in due course.”
Asked to comment, in today’s Commission briefing to the press, on the Greek Prime Minister’s note in his letter that Russian strikes in Ukraine have led to a spike in prices, Mr. McPhee replied that Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and Russia’s “instrumentation” of energy is an issue that the Commission is trying to address in various ways.
“We are closely monitoring the situation”
One of them, the spokesman said, is to help Ukraine restore its electricity system, but also to export energy to Kiev. He, however, did not want to go into details about what the effects are in each EU member state and region.
He merely said that the Commission is “monitoring the situation very closely” and “remains in contact with all member states to address this issue”.
Concluding, he recalled that the European Commission has taken many extraordinary and structural measures in the last two years to regain control of the energy markets. “Prices now are more stable than they were at the height of the crisis in 2022, but we know we still have work ahead of us,” he stressed.
Finally, he noted that the President of the Commission has underlined how important it is to deal with high energy prices in high-level political directions, recently discussed in the context of the Draghi report and in the Commission’s report on the energy situation of the Union. “It’s something we’re watching very closely and we’ll move forward with our analysis,” he stressed.
Source: APE – MEB
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