(Finance) – The rush of gas prices commits European governments, on the one hand, to work on energy saving plans in view of the winter with the unknown of possible further cuts aside Russian about supplies, on the other hand to intervene to reduce the burden of extra costs on households and businesses.
According to an analysis by the Bruegel think tank, Rome, as everyone knows among the most exposed with Berlin to the flow of gas from Russia, so far it is the second in absolute value of the interventions, approximately 50 billion. Before us Berlin, with 60.
At the same time, as mentioned, we continue to work to savings plans. France, for example, will unify the rules banning light advertising between one and six in the morning and will introduce a national ban on leaving the doors of heated or air-conditioned businesses open. However, the measure should not concern stations and airports.
Historic monuments turned off in the evening and a temperature that does not exceed 19 degrees in public buildings and offices during the day: this is the tightening launched by the cabinet council of Olaf Scholz, in Germany, while the possibility of rationing showers is not excluded, in the event – obviously – of a serious interruption in supply. Senator Jens Kerstan did not rule it out: in the event of “a serious shortage of gas, hot water could only be made available at certain times of the day”.
Meanwhile, it is now known that gas in Germany will cost more. “A difficult but necessary step”. With these words, the German Minister of Economy, Robert Habeck, commented on the introduction of a gas tax that will burden the pockets of German consumers and also of businesses.