High energy prices: CDU leadership calls for gas and electricity price caps for basic needs

Created: 09/08/2022 11:36 am

By: Patricia Huber

In order to curb rising energy prices, the CDU is calling for a cap on gas and electricity prices.

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Berlin – The closest CDU leadership around party leader Friedrich Merz wants to bring the traffic light government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) under pressure to act with their own proposals to relieve citizens and companies of the high energy prices.

A draft for the energy proposal for the upcoming federal party conference, available to the German Press Agency in Berlin, provides for a price cap for private households for basic electricity and gas requirements.

The meeting of the 1001 delegates begins on Friday in Hanover.

The draft for the energy lead application says about the gas cap: "The basic gas requirement should be 75 percent of the previous year's consumption and a price of 12 cents per kilowatt hour should be guaranteed for this." The paper was finally agreed on Wednesday evening and sent to the board members been.