• Energy crisis Sánchez doubles in Europe the 'lobby' for the electricity reform

In politics, successes and failures are usually measured in applause, vote counts and the immediate reception of a message or a measure in the public opinion, but in

slow European politics

the line that separates a victory from a defeat is almost always marked by a change of words completely imperceptible for the common of the mortals. In national debates, hyperbole, insults, newspaper archives reproaches are used; In

Brussels they

fight for weeks and sleep up nights to replace "worried" with "very worried" and go from "calling" to "inviting" or from being "determined" to "committed". It is striking, parodic at times, but in the community context a nuance is everything.

The President of the Government arrived at

the European Council

this Thursday

after a month of hyperbolic campaign, after asking

his colleagues

in

Madrid

or

Slovenia

for "forceful and audacious measures", demanding new solutions, mobilizing his vice-presidents, ambassadors and special envoys to stir heaven and earth in every corner. But he arrived being perfectly aware that the battle between leaders was going to be solely over adjectives and commas, that there would be no revolution and that it will be difficult to explain to citizens the low ambition contained in

just five lines in the final document of conclusions

. So the objective changed.

Sánchez aspired, a month ago, for the 27 and the

European Commission to pick

up the baton in the face of such a pronounced crisis, to get their hands on the energy market, to investigate the volatility that his team attributes to the manipulation of large players in the emissions market , which would slightly twist the legislation that has taken more than 25 years to outline to give governments more leeway in their

fight to stop the rise in the price of electricity

, but very soon he realized that he had an insurmountable wall in front of him. Only four or five partners see things the way he does, there is little or no appetite for changing the rules and the main concern is for the climate transition, not the electricity bill for a few months. With that understood, everything that has happened next has been a battle to scratch as much as possible within the minimums available. For those few words on paper despite the expectations generated, resigning himself to the fact that keeping the debate open, with our eyes set on December, is not a victory, but it is avoiding defeat.

"We would like to go faster, but in Brussels the steps are taking at a less intense pace than we would like," the president acknowledged. Spain wants speed and the rest ask, rather, a long-term look, high beams. That is why the president begins to speak already in December, of the next European Council, and he wanted concrete references in the text, a way that the discussion does not die. The European Commission is comfortable with the idea, it believes that there will be more data, more information then. That the situation has probably calmed down a bit. This narrative is valid for everyone, some because pressure is removed and for Moncloa because he can present it as a demonstration that his demands are being listened to and that something has begun to move.

"A month ago there was nothing, now at least there is debate and conclusions"

, diplomatic sources explain

The situation was almost impossible and the 27 leaders have not been able to agree on practically anything.

A large group, led by the Nordics, wants to preserve the green transition at all costs.

Spain, France, Greece, Romania or the Czech Republic

wanted more forcefulness.

There are those who, with

Poland and Hungary

, are pushing to extend the transition period for decarbonisation, or those that, like Italy, are pushing so that no one is forced to change their energy mix at once. With Greece fighting for maritime transport and the Czech Republic demanding changes in the references to the emissions market so as not to veto. And in between, France making a savage lobby for nuclear energy to be considered 'green' in the community taxonomy, while Berlin advocates more for gas. And it was so impossible in that storm that there was no solution, but the usual. After almost six hours of debate, the leaders stopped for the technicians to refine the language a bit while they continued with the agenda. There would be no great advances, and they knew it, but Spain, the Czech Republic and some others wanted changes,So they tried a compromise and set the path:

to mandate his ministers so that on the 26th they will try to build bridges

and the next appointment, at the end of the year.

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