EUROPEAN COUNCIL / Energy

EU leaders want to consider temporary ceilings on energy import prices

Brussels, 31/05/2022 (Agence Europe)

Meeting in Brussels for an Extraordinary European Council, the 27 Heads of State or Government of the European Union countries agreed to invite the European Commission to explore, with the EU’s international partners, ways to curb rising energy prices, including the possibility of introducing temporary import price ceilings.

While this was the fourth meeting of the EU27 to address soaring energy prices and the functioning of the EU electricity market(see EUROPE B12817A1, B12909A1,...