Cabinet decides on gas and electricity price brakes
Created: 2022-11-25Updated: 2022-11-25, 5:08 p.m
By: Christoph Gschossmann
Energy solidarity: France's Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne gave a joint press conference with Olaf Scholz.
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The federal cabinet has paved the way for the gas and electricity price brakes planned for next year.
Berlin/Munich - The cabinet has agreed that the gas and electricity price brakes should come: Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) announced this at a joint press conference with and France's Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.
The two have signed a joint declaration on energy solidarity.
"Friends stand by each other in need," Scholz said on Friday in Berlin.
Borne made up for her inaugural visit, which had been postponed due to the Chancellor's corona disease.
"Our two countries need each other to get through the energy crisis next winter," she said.
Both politicians referred to the importance of the close ties between the two countries.
Three German ministers were in Paris this week, said Borne.
She also congratulated the new cultural representative Anke Rehlinger (SPD), who had taken office the previous evening.
As the Ministry of Economics announced on Friday afternoon, the two draft laws on the relief for energy customers have now cleared the next hurdle.
The Bundestag and Bundesrat should then finally decide on the energy brakes in December so that they can come into force as planned in 2023.
(cgsc with dpa)
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