Brussels proposes a plan in matters of energy

The daily considers that the Commission's objective to reduce carbon gas emissions is like a pious prayer. "In a nut shell, we can say that the air is warming up, that relationships with Russia are freezing and that the European Union remains magnificently tepid", comments Gerard Dupuy with some irony in his editorial. "Russia's pressure on hydrocarbon supplies in Europe is certainly not just circumstantial. ... The arm wrestle has only just begun. Europeans find themselves in the apparently contradictory situation of seeking new sources of energy supplies whilst explaining that this energy should be spared. The Commission is proposing more economic growth and less CO2 at the same time. One can only applaud, even if economic growth has hitherto never been anything but energy-consuming".

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