{"id":440727,"date":"2021-10-07T10:21:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T04:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=440727"},"modified":"2021-10-07T11:20:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T05:50:42","slug":"eu-alarmed-as-soaring-energy-prices-threaten-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/eu-alarmed-as-soaring-energy-prices-threaten-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"EU alarmed as soaring energy prices threaten recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union sounded the alarm on the potential of soaring energy prices to undermine the bloc\u2019s economy, and pledged new guidance for member states struggling to contain the crisis. <\/p>\n<p>The EU didn\u2019t respond directly to respond to nations\u2019 demands for action, and instead vowed to set out recommendations for member states next week on the measures they can take without undermining EU rules. They will include compensation for the most vulnerable households, tax cuts and state aid for companies, EU energy chief Kadri Simson said Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis price shock cannot be underestimated,\u201d Simson told members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg during a debate on the crisis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union sounded the alarm on the potential of soaring energy prices to undermine the bloc\u2019s economy, and pledged new guidance for member states struggling to contain the crisis. The EU didn\u2019t respond directly to respond to nations\u2019 demands for action, and instead vowed to set out recommendations for member states next week on the measures they can take without undermining EU rules. They will include compensation for the most vulnerable households, tax cuts and state aid for companies, EU energy chief Kadri Simson said Wednesday. \u201cThis price shock cannot be underestimated,\u201d Simson told members of the European Parliament [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}