After ten hours of discussions, the leaders of the European Union Member States decided, on the night of Thursday 20-21 October, not to close any doors on energy measures (see EUROPE B13047A1) and on possible European financial instruments to be adopted as a matter of urgency to deal with the surge in energy prices caused by the Russian military aggression against Ukraine.
In the conclusions adopted, the EU27 merged the energy sector-specific paragraphs with the fiscal measures. In a...