{"id":468707,"date":"2026-10-21T11:17:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/10\/21\/von-der-leyen-paghiamo-lassenza-di-ununione-dellenergia-un-piano-per-rilanciarla\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T11:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:54:56","slug":"von-der-leyen-we-are-paying-the-price-for-the-lack-of-an-energy-union-a-plan-to-revive-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/10\/21\/von-der-leyen-we-are-paying-the-price-for-the-lack-of-an-energy-union-a-plan-to-revive-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Von der Leyen: \u201cWe are paying the price for the lack of an energy union; a plan to revive it\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 The watchword in the fight against high energy prices is integration. The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen<\/strong>, is trying to close ranks and is calling for a demonstration of shared responsibility. Because, she laments, \u201cnot only are we too dependent on foreign fossil fuels, on gas setting the price, but we are also squandering opportunities by not having a true European Energy Union.<\/strong>“<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

As is customary, the European Parliament\u2019s plenary session provides an opportunity to report on the summit of Heads of State and Government, and in this context von der Leyen seeks to call for a change of pace, focusing on legislation and reforms. High energy prices are on the leaders\u2019 agenda because they undermine competitiveness, hampered by the fact that a European Energy Union is still lacking. “This is why the Commission will develop a plan for a true European Energy Union<\/strong>,\u201d she announced. A comprehensive strategy for a major revival, \u201cfrom grids and interconnector to aggregated market power in purchasing.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

For von der Leyen, there are no real alternatives: \u201cwe have to make much better use of the potential that we have.\u201d This approach is shared by the President of the European Council, Ant\u00f3nio Costa: \u201cImmediate <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>measures do not solve the EU\u2019s structural <\/strong>problems,\u201d he is keen to make clear to MEPs from all political groups. On the one hand, he warns, \u201cas long as we remain dependent on imports, we remain exposed\u201d to geopolitical turmoil. On the other hand, he notes, the sustainable transition must continue, building on efforts made so far <\/a>and going even further: \u201cNuclear and renewables must be combined with modern grids and electrification.<\/strong>\u201d <\/p>\n

On the energy front, therefore, there is political convergence between the European Commission and the European Council on the need to complete the Energy Union. This task can no longer be postponed. Costa confirmed that, following the one in February 2026<\/a>, he would convene \u201ca second summit at Alden Biesen in February to review work on competitiveness\u201d, and in this regard, \u201cenergy costs are at the heart of these efforts.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The President of the European Commission: \u201cWe don\u2019t just have a problem with energy dependence.\u201d Costa: \u201cNuclear and renewables must be added to the grids and interconnections\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":468698,"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":[27175,25992,25786,26998,33394,35960],"class_list":["post-468707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-nucleare-en","tag-renowable-en","tag-reti-en","tag-ue","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468707","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468708,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468707\/revisions\/468708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}