{"id":447662,"date":"2026-03-16T12:02:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/03\/16\/lue-al-lavoro-su-misure-contro-il-caro-energia-la-crisi-puo-aggravarsi\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T19:40:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:40:58","slug":"eu-working-on-measures-to-tackle-high-energy-prices-the-crisis-could-worsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/03\/16\/eu-working-on-measures-to-tackle-high-energy-prices-the-crisis-could-worsen\/","title":{"rendered":"EU working on measures to tackle high energy prices: “The crisis could worsen”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 The European Union is finalising measures to prepare for the possibility of a worsening energy crisis, said \u00a0the European Commissioner for Energy, Dan J\u00f8rgensen<\/strong>.\u00a0 \u201cWe are well aware of the need not only to monitor the situation, as we obviously do, but also of the fact that we must also prepare ourselves, because the situation could worsen further, and we must be ready to take short-term measures to try to help Member States<\/strong>,\u201d he said on his arrival at the European Union Energy Council today (16 March) in Brussels.<\/p>\n

J\u00f8rgensen pointed out that the EU is now \u201cin a much better position than in 2022\u201d, which is \u201cthe result of the various reforms we have implemented, having learnt since the 2022 crisis\u201d following the outbreak of Russia\u2019s war of aggression against Ukraine. \u201cWe have more renewable energy in our system, we have diversified our supply in general, and in our energy system, there are fewer hours when gas determines the price of electricity,\u201d he noted. He reiterated that the EU is not at risk of supply shortages, but the problem is \u2013 once again \u2013 prices. “In reality, in the European Union, we do not depend so heavily on fuel supplies \u2013 gas or oil \u2013 from the region. We do not have a security of supply problem. But we do have a price problem<\/strong>, because when world market prices rise, obviously, this affects us,” he explained.<\/p>\n

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The Commissioner believes that “it is extremely important to find solutions to the bottlenecks” in Europe and, at the same time, acknowledged the delays and shortcomings. \u201cWe all agree that we want to bring prices down, but at the same time, we must admit that we have not acted quickly enough<\/strong> to implement certain measures that we know are effective in reducing prices, including greater interconnection,\u201d he noted. For this reason, Brussels will seek to take remedial action \u2013 once again. And \u201con behalf of the Commission, I will now present plans that will help resolve the problems we face<\/strong>. Naturally, we will discuss the details, and I will listen to the concerns of ministers from all countries, but the general approach, I believe, enjoys broad consensus,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The situation in the Middle East<\/strong>, however, cannot lead to a change in the EU\u2019s stance towards Moscow<\/strong>. The Commissioner was responding to the Belgian Prime Minister, Bart de Wever, who in an interview published over the weekend in several French-language newspapers<\/a> explained that peace negotiations with Russia might be necessary \u2013 given that Europe cannot defeat Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/strong> militarily by sending weapons to Kyiv, nor can it completely isolate the aggressor country economically without greater support from the United States \u2013 and that normalising relations with the Kremlin would lead to the restoration of low-cost energy supplies. “It would be a mistake to repeat the errors of the past<\/strong>. So, the message is very clear. In the future, we will not import a single molecule of energy from Russia<\/strong>,” J\u00f8rgensen said. “In Europe, we cannot help or indirectly finance Russia\u2019s illegal war. We have been dependent on Russian energy for far too long, allowing Putin to blackmail us with energy, allowing him to use energy as a weapon against us, and we are determined to stay on this path,\u201d the Commissioner concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Commissioner ruled out any possibility of improving relations with Moscow to restore low-cost supplies. “It would be a mistake to repeat the mistakes of the past. So the message is very clear: in future, we will not import a single molecule of energy from Russia.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7874,"featured_media":447649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[30800],"tags":[27394,33392,33293,25806,27569,33137,33367,25803,33394,28458],"class_list":["post-447662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-chrisi-at","tag-energia","tag-forniture","tag-gas-and-2","tag-iran-in-2","tag-jorgensen","tag-petriolio","tag-russia-in-2","tag-ue","tag-de-wever-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447776,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447662\/revisions\/447776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}