{"id":520643,"date":"2022-09-09T10:28:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T04:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=520643"},"modified":"2022-09-09T11:27:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T05:57:15","slug":"eu-to-put-the-brakes-on-energy-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/eu-to-put-the-brakes-on-energy-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"EU to put the brakes on energy prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The situation on the European gas and electricity market has worsened dramatically. Prices are exploding as a consequence of Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine and the stability of the power supply could be threatened in the coming winter.<\/p>\n<p>For these reasons, European Union energy ministers are meeting on Friday for what the official invitation calls \u201cexchanges of views.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Formal decisions haven\u2019t been promised but time is of the essence. The European Commission wants a mandate to prepare interventions in the bloc\u2019s electricity and gas markets, with President Ursula von der Leyen announcing this Wednesday that she wants to present a first draft of a regulation containing drastic measures by early next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The situation on the European gas and electricity market has worsened dramatically. Prices are exploding as a consequence of Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine and the stability of the power supply could be threatened in the coming winter. For these reasons, European Union energy ministers are meeting on Friday for what the official invitation calls \u201cexchanges of views.\u201d Formal decisions haven\u2019t been promised but time is of the essence. The European Commission wants a mandate to prepare interventions in the bloc\u2019s electricity and gas markets, with President Ursula von der Leyen announcing this Wednesday that she wants to present a first [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520643","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=520643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}