EU Should Be More Active in Face of Current Fuel Crisis - Minister
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The EU asked the 27 to reduce electricity and gas consumption, but Maria da Graça Carvalho ensures that these measures "don't make sense to Portugal, since the country is mainly facing problems in the price of petrol, diesel, jet fuel." We hope that, at European level, there will be a more proactive attitude," she said.
Maria da Graça Carvalho says that the Commissioner's letter calling for electricity and gas savings "does not reflect the reality" of the current fuel crisis and calls for more intervention from Brussels.
The government today criticized the recommendations made by the European Commission and calls for concrete measures to help combat the energy crisis. . . We hope that Europe will be more involved in this crisis, as was the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, in various dimensions, one of them in aid and the other in the coordination of the measures [...]
Maria da Graça Carvalho again appealed to the Portuguese to save energy and assured that the government is also taking measures to reduce consumption. In Brussels, the Minister of Environment and Energy also asked for a coordinated response from the European Union to stop the effects of rising fuel prices.
On a possible call to telework, Maria da Graça Carvalho said that a general measure would be discussed in the Council of Ministers, involving the Prime Minister and the Minister of Labour.
EU should be more active in face of current fuel crisis - minister
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