"It is a defining moment for the European Union. I am confident that today we will give it
candidate status for Ukraine and Moldova and we will express a clear and strong European perspective for Georgia ".
Thus the president of the European Council Charles Michel , on the day when the leaders of the EU states meet in Brussels to discuss the requests for membership presented by Kiev and Chisinau.
At the center of the summit, where Prime Minister Mario Draghi also arrived, was the European response to the energy crisis triggered by the conflict in Ukraine .
The Council, as stated in the draft of the document circulated in these hours, "in contrasting Russia's use of gas as a weapon , invites the Commission to pursue its efforts to ensure affordable energy supplies ".
The focus is therefore on the so-called “price cap”, or a ceiling on the price of gas , a measure supported, among others, by Italy.
Just in these hours, Germany has activated the alarm in the gas emergency plan . The decision, agreed in the government of Olaf Scholz , was communicated by the Ministry of Economy and Climate led by green Robert Habeck . "At the moment the gas supply is guaranteed", the ministry also assured. The plan includes three steps: alert, alarm and emergency.
" Gas is immediately a scarce commodity in Germany ", continued Habek, "and we must reduce the use of gas already in the summer ". Summer is "deceptive", "but winter arrives and we have to fill the deposits ", he concluded.
In the meantime, new verbal thugs arrive from Russia to EU leaders, again from the voice of the vice president of the Security Council and former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev , who had already launched harsh attacks on the West in recent days.
“No offense to anyone, but it is clear to everyone that Mario Draghi is not Silvio Berlusconi and Olaf Scholz is not Angela Merkel . These are new people and a new era of government, which in my opinion is far from optimal, "he wrote on Telegram.
Adding: “The problem of the degeneration of European politics is above all linked to the fact that it has become a pale reserve of American soloists. Charles de Gaulle could oppose any American president. And now which Europeans will do it without shaking hands? They don't think about the future. They are limited only by their flaccid election goals . "
(Unioneonline / lf)