EU leaders granted in Spain and Portugal special permission to manage their own electricity prices, said today the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, after the end of Summit.
The President of the Commission said that this was possible because these two countries have a relatively high share of renewable energy sources in their energy mix and very few connections with other parts of the EU network.
“We agreed on a special treatment that is possible for her Iberian Peninsula“so that the Iberian Peninsula can deal with this very specific situation in which it finds itself and manage electricity prices,” von der Layen told a news conference after the EU leaders’ meeting in Brussels.
Earlier, during the summit, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez angrily left the council for about 10-15 minutes, as his country has no gas connection and asked for a special exception for the Iberian Peninsula. in determining the prices of electricity.
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