Index – Abroad – Ursula von der Leyen made an important announcement about gas prices

Ursula von der Leyen stressed that reducing energy costs is a priority, as energy costs continue to affect European competitiveness, especially in the case of industries with high energy requirements.

The increase in the global supply of liquefied natural gas will soon shift the energy market from a global energy shortage to an abundance, so we expect a decrease in gas prices

– stated the president of the EU committee, who says that at the same time, it is necessary to advocate for Europe to produce more, cheap and clean energy, for which the cross-border electricity transmission capacity must double within this decade.

Von der Leyen said that in the last decade, Europe’s productivity increased by only 0.8 percent per year, compared to 1.1 percent in the United States. This lag can only be addressed with coordinated efforts at the European and national level, he said.

“Restoring our competitive advantage must be at the center of Europe’s economic agenda in 2024 and beyond,” said Von der Leyen, and then added: state investment is not enough for all of this, the Union must also mobilize private capital, an essential element of the solution must also be the capital market completion of the union.

According to the Fidesz EP representative, the EU is behind five wasted years

According to MTI, Enikő Győri, the Fidesz European Parliament (EP) representative, said in his speech during the debate that the president of the EU committee “lives in an alternative reality”. Behind the European Union are “five wasted years”, failed in crisis management, weak and divided. Europe is losing its competitiveness. It has destroyed European industry and agriculture with its forced green ideology, and it is also performing increasingly poorly in world trade, he said.

He emphasized: the European Union is a peace project, but the current leadership in Brussels is pro-war. There is no military solution to the Russian-Ukrainian war, despite the fact that it is clear who is the aggressor and who is the victim, said the Fidesz EP representative, and then said: “the sooner there is peace, the more lives we can save”.

He said: the EU was created in order to become stronger together, in comparison – as he highlighted – the union has never been as divided as it is now. The European Commission is blackmailing the countries that fall out of line in the issues of migration, war, and “gender” by withholding the resources due to them, he pointed out. Instead of ideological discussions, it would be time to deal with problems that really affect people, he underlined.

The politician stated that the migration pact is nothing more than the repackaging of already rejected proposals. “You don’t want to stop, but manage migration,” he said, then added that Hungary will not allow illegal migrants in, and refugee applications must be assessed outside the borders. Not for war, not for migration and not for “gender ideology”. A change is needed in June, Enikő Győri added in his speech.

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