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France spends 8.4 billion euros to help companies with energy bills
France will spend 8.4 billion euros ($8.67 billion) to help companies pay their energy bills, in a bid to cushion the impact of rising electricity and gas prices and help them compete with German businesses, its finance minister said on Saturday.
read more... 22/11/2022
German gas subsidy plan may raise prices
German plans to subsidise households’ gas bills from next year risk impairing competition between suppliers and ultimately raising prices, the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) said on Friday.
read more... 07/11/2022
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Greece to tax power firms on windfall profits from higher gas prices
Greece will impose supplementary tax bills on energy firms, its energy minister said on Thursday, after a regulator identified windfall profits stemming from elevated energy prices.
read more... 04/11/2022
UK energy price caps will help to reduce inflation
Britain's energy price cap for consumers and government-funded discounts on bills for businesses will push official measures of inflation lower, the country's statistics office said on Monday.
read more... 01/11/2022
Slovak government plans energy price cap, tying it to tough budget vote
Slovakia will cap energy prices for companies in the first quarter of the next year to ease the impact of soaring bills, Prime Minister Eduard Heger said on Monday as he aims to shore up the minority government's chances of pushing through a 2023 budget.
read more... 25/10/2022