(ANSA) - MADDALONI (CASERTA), APRIL 10 - "The European Union must establish a maximum ceiling, and we are asking as a government, on the price of gas. We cannot think at this moment of preferring speculative dynamics of prices to the safety of our families, which are unable, like businesses, to cope with increases of 200% on their electricity bills ".
Thus in Maddaloni (Caserta) the Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio, who made a point on the situation of energy supplies.
"The ceiling on the price of gas - he added - means stopping speculations that are not linked to quantities today, because we are receiving all the gas from Russia, but are linked to speculative-financial dynamics".
"Tomorrow morning I will be with President Draghi in Algeria to sign an agreement on gas that will allow us to face any Russian blackmail on gas. Unfortunately we are late as a country, we had to diversify much earlier but we have many partners and friends around the world", the minister then announced. .
"In the last month and a half I have been in Algeria, Qatar, Congo, Angola, Mozambique, Azerbijan: all these countries have said they are willing to increase supplies to Italy," he added.
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