24
Mar
2022
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The Power of the EU – Joint European Action for more affordable, secure and sustainable energy (debate)
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Minister and Vice-President of the Commission, I would like to make three brief remarks. The first is that we have an emergency to deal with: the energy costs that threaten to knock out our production system and families and we must prepare for the coming winter. We therefore support the Commission's proposal which includes measures for price interventions at national level, adequate gas storage by next November and joint purchases. The second consideration is that it is clear that the transition must be accelerated as much as possible, but in order to do this we must abandon ideological approaches and thus start, on the one hand, the major processes of infrastructure of renewables and energy efficiency and, on the other, ensure the diversification of the supply of fossil fuels that we still need. Finally, the third consideration: In recent years we have chosen the Green Deal As an environmental goal, that's true. But the Ukrainian crisis shows us that the green transition is also urgent to ensure Europe's strategic autonomy and thus, in fact, our freedom and sovereignty. The path traced is the right one and from here we will continue to support it.