“We need to intervene immediately in a meaningful way,” Draghi said

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi welcomed today’s meeting in Rome, dedicated to energy, which was attended by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Portuguese Antonio Costa and, via video conference, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

“We need to intervene immediately, we all know we have to do something essential,” Draghi said. “The goal is to support the purchasing power of households and, of course, businesses,” he added.

According to the Italian technocrat prime minister, “the European Union has reacted with great determination and unity to the attack on Ukraine” and the member states must now show the same conviction and coherence in protecting their economies. from the consequences of the war and, above all, from the increase in the price of energy “.

“We must act immediately and together. We want to bring to the next European Summit a proposal for urgent action,” added Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

“This energy crisis was triggered by Putin. Europe now has to face its weaknesses in the energy market: to diversify supplies, strengthen interconnections and win the ecological transition bet,” Sanchez said.

Referring to European defense, the Spanish Prime Minister said that “Putin, with his unjustified and unjust war, reminded us that” peace must be defended “and that is why” the member states of the Union, next week must approve the Strategic Compass for defense “.

The Portuguese Prime Minister, Antonio Costa, underlined that “energy is a key issue for the implementation of the national Recovery and Sustainability Plans of the EU countries”. That is why “the next European Summit must take concrete decisions, so that the economic recovery is not interrupted and social cohesion prevails,” Costa concluded.

Source: AMPE