After hours of negotiations, the outcome of the two-day meeting of EU leaders did not deliver any clear agreement on whether and how to limit gas prices to reduce soaring bills in the bloc.
Nevertheless, some leaders feel that EU energy ministers will be able to agree on a package of emergency measures in the next weeks.
"We are close to the solution," said Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez on Friday (21 October) after the summit meeting in Brussels.
Spain, together with...
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Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent.