{"id":1677446,"date":"2022-10-07T06:56:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T10:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1677446"},"modified":"2022-10-07T06:57:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T10:57:09","slug":"eu-leaders-squabble-over-energy-crunch-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eu-leaders-squabble-over-energy-crunch-response\/","title":{"rendered":"EU leaders squabble over energy crunch response"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Feu-leaders-squabble-over-energy-crunch-response%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=1677446&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 Jason Hovet, Sabine Siebold and Robert Muller<\/p>\n<p>PRAGUE (Reuters) -Divisions between European Union leaders over capping gas prices and national rescue packages resurfaced on Friday as they met at Prague Castle to discuss how best to deal with a winter energy crunch caused by Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Fifteen EU states want a price cap on gas but do not agree on the details of how it should be done. Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands oppose any cap, worried that it would make it difficult to buy the gas they need to keep their economies running and dampen any incentive to reduce consumption.<\/p>\n<p>Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said any price cap must be devised and implemented in a way that supports power suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe negotiations are ongoing. And they will be intense because\u2026 it is our goal to support\u2026 energy providers with it, so that the supply of gas does not decrease,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala specifically mentioned capping prices of gas used for electricity production, while Latvia\u2019s Krisjanis Karins said a cap would be \u201cgrand\u201d if the bloc could still ensure supplies from producers.<\/p>\n<p>The summit\u2019s chairman, European Council President Charles Michel, said no decisions were expected on Friday but hoped the discussion among leaders would lead to a deal when they next meet on Oct. 20-21.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe energy crisis is a very important challenge we need to address,\u201d Michel said, adding he was hoping to advance talks on reducing demand, securing supplies and lowering prices. \u201cI hope to take steps into the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>POLAND FUMES<\/p>\n<p>Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki took Germany to task for what he sees as lavish spending of 200 billion euros ($196 billion) in subsidies to shield consumers and businesses from soaring energy costs.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the European Council there will be very intensive discussion on this topic,\u201d Morawiecki said late on Thursday. \u201cSo the Italians couldn\u2019t do that, the French couldn\u2019t do that, the Poles couldn\u2019t do that, but they can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf that is equal, fair and just treatment of the principle of the European Union\u2019s common market then I am very sorry but there is something I don\u2019t understand,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium\u2019s Alexander De Croo disagreed, however, saying big national support packages were necessary in the absence of any pan-EU action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could not just leave people coping with the cold weather,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cBut the real solution is that we act together in the market and then those big (national) support packages won\u2019t be necessary anymore.\u201d     <\/p>\n<p>The leaders will also discuss in Prague providing more financial and military support to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The EU\u2019s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, said it was important for all European nations, including those outside the EU, to stand in solidarity with Ukraine against Russian hostility. <\/p>\n<p>($1 = 1.0199 euros)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jan Strupczewski, Kate Abnett, Jason Hovet, Alan Charlish, Sabine Siebold, Michael Rose; editing by Richard Pullin; Writing by Anthony DeutschEditing by Gareth Jones)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/business\/eu-leaders-turn-to\/attachment\/file-photo-bulgartransgaz-gas-compressor-station-near-ihtiman\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI95154-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI95154-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/business\/eu-leaders-turn-to\/attachment\/representatives-of-russia-ukraine-and-the-european-union-meet-for\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9514V-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9514V-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jason Hovet, Sabine Siebold and Robert Muller PRAGUE (Reuters) -Divisions between European Union leaders over capping gas prices and national rescue packages resurfaced on Friday as they met at<\/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-1677446","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\/1677446","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=1677446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677446\/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=1677446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}