{"id":1651030,"date":"2022-09-21T11:05:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T15:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1651030"},"modified":"2022-09-21T11:06:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T15:06:24","slug":"europe-burns-cash-to-help-businesses-in-deepening-energy-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/europe-burns-cash-to-help-businesses-in-deepening-energy-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe burns cash to help businesses in deepening energy crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feurope-burns-cash-to-help-businesses-in-deepening-energy-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1651030&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Kirsti Knolle and Paul Sandle<\/p>\n<p>BERLIN\/LONDON (Reuters) -Germany nationalised gas importer Uniper on Wednesday and Britain said it would halve energy bills for businesses in response to a deepening energy crisis that has exposed Europe\u2019s reliance on Russian fuel.    <\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin added to the upward pressure on energy prices by announcing a partial military mobilisation, in the biggest escalation of the Ukraine war since Moscow\u2019s Feb. 24 invasion.    <\/p>\n<p>European governments had already earmarked almost 500 billion euros ($496 billion) in the last year to shield citizens and companies from soaring gas and power prices, according to research by think-tank Bruegel.<\/p>\n<p>Uniper has been among the biggest corporate casualties, with Germany earmarking an additional 8 billion euros on Wednesday in the latest step in a 29 billion euro bailout. <\/p>\n<p>France, also among the high spenders, will allocate 9.7 billion euros to take full control of utility EDF. <\/p>\n<p>Britain said its new plan to help businesses would cost \u201ctens of billions of pounds.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have stepped in to stop businesses collapsing, protect jobs, and limit inflation,\u201d Britain\u2019s finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng said of the cap on wholesale electricity and gas costs for businesses, which is set to apply from Oct.1 <\/p>\n<p>More than 20 British power providers have collapsed, many crumbling because a government price cap prevented them from passing on soaring prices.  <\/p>\n<p>Uniper\u2019s full nationalisation will involve the German government buying out Finland\u2019s Fortum to give the state a 99% holding.    <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is clearly not sustainable from a public finance perspective,\u201d Bruegel senior fellow Simone Tagliapietra said of Europe\u2019s overall energy crisis bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernments with more fiscal space will inevitably better manage the energy crisis by outcompeting their neighbours for limited energy resources over the winter months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE\u2019<\/p>\n<p>German Economy Minister Robert Habeck, announcing the Uniper move and other steps to avoid energy rationing this winter, said: \u201cThe state will \u2026 do everything possible to always keep the companies stable on the market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Uniper ationalisation gives the German government control of some assets in Russia, a government spokesperson said, adding that it was examining what to do with these.<\/p>\n<p>Germany was more reliant than many others in Europe on Russian gas, mostly supplied via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. Russia halted flows through the pipeline, blaming Western sanctions for hindering operations. European politicians call that a pretext and say Moscow is using energy as a weapon.  <\/p>\n<p>The German government has already put Gazprom Germania, a unit of Kremlin-controlled Gazprom, and a subsidiary of Russian oil company Rosneft under trusteeship \u2013 a de facto nationalisation. Including Uniper\u2019s bailout, the bill amounts to about 40 billion euros.<\/p>\n<p>WINDFALL TAX<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a debate is raging in Europe over whether oil companies making record profits because of the energy crisis should pay additional taxes to help consumers cope with soaring inflation.<\/p>\n<p>TotalEnergies\u2019 CEO Patrick Pouyanne said on Wednesday that the French energy group was likely to face more than 1 billion euros in additional levies if a proposed EU scheme to impose extra taxes on oil and gas companies was approved. [L8N30S2HW]      <\/p>\n<p>European gas prices on Wednesday hit 212 euros per megawatt hour (MWh), below this year\u2019s peak of around 343 euros but up more than 200% from a year earlier. Oil prices rose by as much 3% in early trading, but later gave up these gains. [O\/R}<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe partial mobilisation (in Russia) is definitely a bullish factor as it increases the risks of a prolonged war in Ukraine,\u201d said Viktor Katona, lead crude analyst at Kpler.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s gas flows to Europe via Ukraine were steady on Wednesday while eastbound gas flows via the Yamal-Europe pipeline to Poland from Germany were halted.<\/p>\n<p>In the United States, Democratic and Republican senators on Tuesday proposed that President Joe Biden\u2019s administration use secondary sanctions on international banks to strengthen plans for a price cap by G7 countries on Russian oil.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has said it would cut all oil and gas flows to the West if such a cap was implemented.<\/p>\n<p>Several countries have banned imports of Russian crude and fuel, but Moscow has managed to maintain its revenues through increased sales to Asia.<\/p>\n<p>The move by U.S. lawmakers came hours before Putin ordered Russia\u2019s first mobilisation since World War Two, warning the West that if it continued what he called its \u201cnuclear blackmail\u201d Moscow would respond with its vast arsenal.    <\/p>\n<p>($1 = 1.0087 euros)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Reuters bureaux; writing by Ingrid Melander; editing by Edmund Blair, Jason Neely and Jane Merriman)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/europe-burns-cash-to\/file-photo-genreal-view-of-electricity-pylons-and-power-lines\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8K0BJ-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8K0BJ-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/europe-burns-cash-to\/klaus-dieter-maubach-ceo-of-german-utility-uniper-addresses-the-media\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8K0BL-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8K0BL-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kirsti Knolle and Paul Sandle BERLIN\/LONDON (Reuters) -Germany nationalised gas importer Uniper on Wednesday and Britain said it would halve energy bills for businesses in response to a deepening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1651030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}