The EU Commission wants to lower energy prices

Brussels The days are getting shorter, the worries bigger. Dissatisfaction with expensive electricity and high heating costs is bringing left and right-wing groups together, and protests are threatening all over Europe. The governments in the EU countries are trying to calm down their populations with massive relief packages.

At the weekend, the traffic light coalition presented a 64 billion euro package in Berlin that provides for direct payments for pensioners and students, an electricity price brake, aid for companies and the skimming off of random profits.

But the main problem, the exorbitant rise in gas prices, remains unsolved. Now the EU Commission is reacting.

>> Read here: How the system of random profits and electricity price brake could work

This Wednesday, top officials of the Commission want to consult with the member states. A gas price cap is being worked on. This is shown by an internal paper that is available to the Handelsblatt. In it, the Commission proposes two options: