Ursula von der Leyen on gas: "Progress made, proposal Tuesday"

"Good discussion on energy with the members of the

. Good progress has been made in implementing the roadmap to address the high energy prices presented to leaders at the informal

We will approve another package of legislative proposals next time. meeting of the College, Tuesday ".

The president of the European Commission

wrote it on Twitter , publishing a photo of the meeting, which took place in digital format.

The proposal, according to rumors on the eve, will not directly address the issue of the

on gas, contrary to what has been hypothesized by a number of countries including Italy, since at the level of the leaders the the line of Germany squares and continues to prevail.

The Commission's proposal will end up directly on the table of the

who met on 20 and 21 October for the Council.

On 25 October, however, the Energy Affairs Council will return to express its opinion on

, which can only have a green light in November, when the

will convene a new extraordinary meeting of energy ministers.

A breech birth that well illustrates all the snaking tensions between the capitals.

The package on which the EU executive is working should contain a strengthening of the common purchasing platform, in which the industry will also be invited to take part, as well as an intervention to stem the excessive volatility of the

which von der Leyen herself has defined as "built for other needs".

A possible mechanism, also mentioned in a non-paper signed by the Netherlands and Germany, could be that of 'circuit breakers', automatic switches that trip if prices exceed a certain limit.   

The other aspect is that of the

(of 15%) expected in each member country.

For now they are volunteers and just yesterday the data on the results arrived from the States.

If the "light" approach has paid off well.

Otherwise it will be evaluated whether to tread more on the hand.

Finally, the negotiations with the

- one above all at the moment Norway - to have lower prices.

And in the background there are also the

which at the moment seem destined to remain so, on the possibility of resorting to common debt instruments - a kind of Sure 2.0 - to deal with the emergency.