The European Commission proposes to cap the price of Russian gas, setting it at €50 per megawatt-hour.
This was reported by Politico with reference to the documents obtained at its disposal.
The newspaper calls such a move "adventure", since the EU should be ready to immediately give up Russian gas if Moscow stops all supplies in response.
The European Commission also proposes to introduce command-and-control distribution of gas among countries in case of emergencies. Politico writes that France advocated establishing a European-wide price cap on gas supplies from Russia and a tax on excess profits from energy resources.
In European markets, the unit of measurement of energy, or the amount of heat in megawatt-hours, is used to measure gas volumes. In terms of cubic meters, the cost of gas, which the European Commission wants to achieve, will be approximately €480 per thousand cubic meters.
- In June, the G7 countries agreed to discuss the possibility of capping Russian gas prices.
- On September 3, the G7 (USA, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Japan) agreed to limit the prices of oil and oil products from Russia in the winter.