Leaders to call for ‘workable’ price cap on gas at EU summit

Euractiv | Oct 4, 2022 at 10:05 AM
  • EU leaders are set to ask the bloc’s executive at a summit this week to come up with a proposal for capping the price of gas imports in a bid to curb prices.
  • A declaration still being negotiated for the meeting in Prague on Friday, invites the European Commission to work on “proposing workable solutions to reduce prices through gas prices cap”.
  • Other priorities listed in the draft EU summit statement include “speeding up negotiations” with foreign countries for additional gas supplies, “developing a more representative benchmark for LNG” that better reflects current market conditions and speeding up work to “limit price volatility” on financial markets.