Gas Crisis Prompts Fresh Proposals From EU

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Other measures include speeding up renewable energy investment by accelerating the permit protests, enhancing consumer provisions to allow them to more easily change suppliers, increasing the number of interconnectors that allow energy to flow between member states and putting together a clean-energy social transition fund, which would help member states cushion price shocks for vulnerable families.
46% : The shock also comes as the EU is pushing an environmental transition plan, the European Green Deal, and trying to cut reliance on energy imports.
46% : Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is among those calling for the European Green Deal to be adjusted to avoid "indirect taxation for flat owners, house owners and car owners, which isn't acceptable."
43% : The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, laid out various actions on Wednesday that could be taken at EU or national level to prevent energy price shocks, as political pressure builds on member governments to stem the higher costs.

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