Electricity, gas, fuels… Energy prices are soaring and this
“affects all French people, all Europeans, and to some extent the whole planet,”
European Commissioner for the Internal Market, French Thierry Breton, observed on Sunday.
On the eve of a meeting on Monday of finance ministers from the Twenty-Seven, Thierry Breton promised that the European Commission would activate the instruments that will allow governments to limit the damage to bills.
"It is in the hands of the States"
, recalled the Commissioner, according to whom 35 to 36 million Europeans are today in difficulty by the rise in prices.
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Europe has been called on by the Spanish and Italian governments.
In France, Bruno Le Maire denounced Friday on Public Senate an
"obsolete" system
.
“The single European electricity market does not work, it is absurd.
(…) We must thoroughly review (its) operation, ”
said the French Minister of the Economy.
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