At the end there are also the signatures of
France
and
Bulgaria
in the
letter
signed by
15 countries
of the
European Union
and addressed to the Commission in the person of the Commissioner for Energy
Kadri Simson
.
The request contained in the letter is to present a proposal on the
price cap
as early as this week
, to be finalized with a more formal legislative initiative "
as soon as possible
".
The other 13 countries are
Italy
,
Spain
,
Poland
,
Greece
,
Belgium
,
Malta
,
Lithuania
,
Latvia
,
Portugal
,
Slovenia
,
Slovakia
,
Croatia
and
Romania
.
Clearly, the political weight of France is not indifferent and is an important added value.
There have also
been opposed
to the application of the gas price cap such as
Hungary
and the
Netherlands
.
So far
Ursula von der Leyen
has shown
prudence
on such an initiative precisely because of the
opposition
of some member countries and also for a
balancing
policy with respect to the sanctions already applied to Russia.
Not being able to force the seller to apply a price imposed by the buyer, there are two ways to achieve the application of the Price Cap: the first is to allow companies to
purchase gas at the price indicated
by the ceiling and
reintegrate the
cost difference at the state level.
with the gas supplier, a very
expensive
measure for the individual states;
the other is
to retract the price of the raw material with all suppliers
, including Russia, therefore, which would not make the measure dedicated only to the economy of Moscow, but also to the United States, Azerbajan, Algeria and Norway.