President Emmanuel Macron denounced Tuesday, at the end of the G7 summit in Germany, the "
absurd
" fixing of electricity prices, according to him, contributing strongly to the wave of inflation and generating "
unreasonable excess profits
" for the operators.
The rise in prices throughout Europe "
is a tax from outside that comes through gas and electricity
" since the start of the war in Ukraine, and "
the taxpayer's money is not intended to compensate this tax from outside, otherwise it is an endless system that will impoverish us
”, launched the Head of State at a press conference.
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"
the best answer is to lower the purchase price
"
In addition to the shields put in place since the fall of 2021 on energy prices, at great cost to the state budget, he called for "
changing the operating rules of the electricity market
", including prices are historically indexed in Europe to those of gas.
Because of this system, “
you have skyrocketing electricity prices that no longer have anything to do with electricity production costs, it follows gas, it's absurd;
which means that you have players, for example in renewables, who make totally unreasonable excess profits during the period
”.
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"
Honestly it's the Shadoks, what we are going through
," he insisted: "
We are spending taxpayers' money to try to help the same taxpayer as a consumer to cope with the increase prices, which comes from outside, on the oil and gas that we do not produce, and which is linked to the war
".
The Shadoks were the characters of an animated series with deliberately absurd humor, broadcast in France from the end of the 1960s. Faced with this situation, "
objectively the best response is to lower its prices for purchase
", advocated Emmanuel Macron, expressing his support for the efforts undertaken by the European Commission at the beginning of June,