(Finance) – “The European Council returns to the impact of energy prices. The goal is a path of safety energy“. Thus the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, during communications to the Chamber in view of the next EU Council. “Italy has been in the front row for months for a dynamic price ceiling. For now, the European Commission’s response is unsatisfactory and unfeasible. It is essential to curb speculation: the stakes on energy are very high because it defines Europe’s ability to defend its families and hers businesses” avoiding having “a two-speed EU”.
“It is clear to everyone that a mechanism of different protections for companies in different countries would cause one distortion of the single market which would compromise the whole of Europe: it is now there majority of states to ask with us a dynamic roof to the price of the gas. Going in random order, thinking of saving oneself at the expense of others, is not only an illusion but would betray an idea of a Europe different from the one praised in recent years”.strategic autonomy of the EU must be interpreted as an opportunity to strengthen its defense capabilities, as a European pillar in this area Born“.
“We are ready to do whatever it takes to stop the speculations on energy prices. From this point of view, we agree that the only truly effective and decisive interventions must come from the European Union,” he added. “The negotiation it is underway today and tomorrow we will have more elements. But we are ready to intervene at the national level if European measures are delayed or ineffective. I am proud of the work we have done, I am thinking of the production of national gas at subsidized prices for our companies”.
Meloni declared that “it was no coincidence that the first trip abroad as Prime Minister was to the EU institutions”. “It was a choice that moved from conviction and from awareness that in the face of facts it would not have been difficult to demonstrate how far the reality of the government was from a certain defeatist and self-interested story told abroad and the belief that Italy can and must play a leading role in Europe having the defense ofnational interest“.