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.