French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne will hold a press conference today “on the energy situation”, as electricity and gas prices soar and the “tariff shield” expires at the end of the year, said AFP learned yesterday from those around him.
Ms Borne will discuss the country’s supply scenarios, following the forecasts, presented the same day, by the electricity and gas transmission managers (RTE and GRTgaz), as well as the future of the tariff shield and “sobriety” energy. The government, which is preparing its draft budget for 2023, has promised that the rise in gas and electricity prices will remain “contained” following the shield expires on December 31. The Ministers of Economy Bruno Le Maire and Energy Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher will also take part in this press conference.
Once the tariff shield is finished at the end of 2022, “we will keep devices to cushion energy prices”, while prices have exploded on the wholesale markets, “and we will take specific measures to support the most fragile”, indicated the Prime Minister at the end of August.
Bruno Le Maire had indicated for his part that the question of expanding the number of beneficiaries of the energy check would be debated in Parliament on the draft budget. This device, intended to mitigate the shock of energy inflation for the most modest households, is now received by six million people and its amount reaches an average of 150 euros.
President Emmanuel Macron, for his part, said he was in favor of the European Union imposing a contribution on energy operators who would make “undue profits” with the surge in wholesale electricity prices on the continent. unison of Germany.
The government, which wants to bring the deficit below the 3% threshold by the end of the five-year term and extend the tariff shield in a reduced form in 2023, would also consider spreading over 2023 and 2024 the abolition of the contribution on the business value added (CVAE). Since the fall of 2021, the “tariff shield” and government rebates on the price of fuel have cost 24 billion euros, according to a recent figure from Bercy.
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne will hold a press conference today “on the energy situation”, as electricity and gas prices soar and the “tariff shield” expires at the end of the year, said AFP learned yesterday from those around her. Ms. Borne will discuss the country’s supply scenarios,…