Look at the world 丨 EU wants to "rob the rich and help the poor", and "divide" the money made by energy companies to the public

What makes the EU people more trembling than winter is the electricity bill in hand. Some media estimate that the current Italian household electricity price has reached about 5 times that of China's domestic electricity prices.

Although the price of natural gas in Europe has fallen below 200 euros/MWh time in the past few days, it is nearly 10 times higher than 20-30 euros per 1000 degrees of electricity last summer.

After the EU Council Chairman Feng Delin's radical measures for "Russia's Natural Gas Price" were kicked out of the current discussion, the European Union finally came up with a detailed draft energy plan this week, mainly including two aspects: suppression of electricity needs, and levying " Unity tax.

On September 10, a restaurant owner in Florence, Italy showed his bills when he asked the government for help. The energy cost of this restaurant is three times a year ago

It is good to understand the demand for electricity. Earlier, many countries have issued some measures, such as Sweden requested the maximum temperature setting of the shopping mall in the winter, and it may not exceed 19 ° C, and the offenders may be sentenced to three years.

The collection of "solidarity taxes" obviously attracted more attention.

The so -called "solidarity tax" is that the fossil fuel company must pay 33%of the profit from the average level of 20%higher than the average level in the past three years. On September 13, the "Guardian" quoted a leaked draft that the European Commission predicted that the profits of oil, natural gas and coal companies in 2022 will increase by 5 times year -on -year.

In addition, the draft also stipulates that non -natural gas power generation companies that use renewable energy should pay violence taxes for income other than 180 euros per MWh. The analysis believes that this will restrict the income of the generator to less than half of the current market price. Germany is currently nearly 500 euros per MW.

In other words, forced energy companies to transfer profits and allocate them to consumers- "These companies are earning income they have never imagined, and they can even dream." It is wrong to obtain record revenue and profits. In this era, profits must be shared and transported to the most needed people. "Feng Delin announced on the 14th that the grand plan said.

In this "robbing rich" plan, the prospect is beautiful: According to a report on a German TV on the 14th, Feng Delin expects this measure to bring "more than 140 billion euros" funds, and these funds will also flow to the European Union to the European Union Member states are used to provide energy assistance to citizens.

However, whether the "unity tax" of the European Union can be levied smoothly depends on the results of the EU member states responsible for the energy department's voting voting on September 30. If they agree with this plan, the people are naturally welcome, but those energy companies are expected to be very reluctant.

Moreover, some comments expressed concerns about the side effects of this plan: taxation will increase the burden on the enterprise, the total tax burden may be close to 50%; taxation may prevent the company from investing in new investment; some people are worried that limiting prices will increase demand, so as to thus, so as to increase demand, so as to thus, so Exhaust the problem of insufficient energy supply.

But market sources are optimistic about this. Regarding the current EU's efforts and measures for natural gas storage, well -known investment bank Goldman Sachs said in the latest forecast that the price of European natural gas in the first quarter of next year hopes to fall back below 100 euros.

The reason for Goldman Sachs is that the high inventory level accumulated in Europe before entering this winter can adapt to "extraction of inventory higher than the average level", and it may still leave a 20%balance by the end of March next year. In addition to emergency storage, Europe is also accelerating the construction of natural gas receiving terminals, including one of the Netherlands last week.

In the end, whether this plan can be implemented, it needs to be discussed by member states. The situation changes rapidly. As a result, it is difficult to predict. As the Energy Security Special Envoy of the Czech Republic said at the EU Minister of Energy: "(the idea of ​​re -distribution of the income policy) was 6 The moon is crazy, in July, it is the edge, and it becomes the mainstream in August. "Who knows that in October, will everyone's ideas change?

Source | Yangcheng Evening News · Yangcheng School

Picture | Global Times, Visual China

Responsible editor | Lin Liai

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