Correspondent in Brussels
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen would no doubt have preferred to wait for her big back-to-school meeting - the traditional State of the Union speech on September 14 - to make new proposals on electricity prices. 'energy.
Only, the context is such - grumbling among European citizens against a backdrop of declining purchasing power, the first shutdowns of factories strangled by costs that have become astronomical, prospects for a gas shortage this winter - that the former -German Defense Minister was forced to revise its plans.
For the past few days, she has been gradually lifting the veil on the emergency measures which should be presented to EU ambassadors and then to European energy ministers on September 9.
"VDL" was more specific on Friday, on the sidelines of a meeting in Germany with parliamentarians from the CDU-CSU, his political family.
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