Chieti, 2 May (LaPresse) – ‘The government should be fighting the right battles in Europe, but it isn’t. First and foremost, it must call for a European cap on gas prices, as was done in Spain in 2022.’ This was stated by Elly Schlein in Chieti, where she was supporting the PD’s mayoral candidate Giovanni Legnini on the closing day of the ‘Congress of Ideas’. "Today we find ourselves in a situation where Italy has the highest energy bills in Europe. This government has declared war on renewables, which actually have great potential to create good businesses and quality jobs, especially in the south of the country. We need to simplify and speed up authorisations; we need to support businesses with a genuine industrial policy that starts precisely by reducing energy costs. We can look to what other countries have done. By decoupling energy prices from gas prices – which is the most expensive source, and on which the Meloni government’s actions are making us increasingly dependent. – he concluded – This is why I want to emphasise that Giorgia Meloni is waging a single battle in Europe, which is to suspend the ETS – (Emissions Trading System, the European scheme for reducing greenhouse gas emissions) – which is the main tool for freeing us from dependence on fossil fuels and gas. If you only want to do this, you are trading dependence on Russian gas for dependence on Trump’s gas. It is not a forward-looking strategy.”
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