The EU should prioritise other measures over a windfall levy on power producers, Poland’s prime minister said, in a sign of possible divisions over Brussels’ plan to help consumers through the energy crisis.
Ahead of an EU emergency energy meeting on Friday, Mateusz Morawiecki suggested that a temporary suspension of the EU emissions trading scheme to help lower electricity costs would give “a response to Putin, showing him that we are able to very quickly react”.
In contrast, the windfall corporate levy proposed by the European Commission would take far longer to bring down soaring electricity prices for European households because it would “require redistribution thereafter”.