In April this year, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk published a column in the Financial Times calling for the creation of an Energy Union based on six pillars with thegoal of making energy more competitive and secure in the EU and its neighbourhood. Its most ambitious part would consist in setting up “a single European body charged with buying [Russian] gas.”
Ten years after the French Parliament unsuccessfully debated over the introduction of progressive energy rates, similar mechanisms are now being implemented in several EU countries in a context of shortages and rocketing prices.
Dix ans après la proposition Brottes-Le Roux de tarification progressive de l’énergie, des mécanismes comparables sont aujourd’hui mis en place dans plusieurs pays de l’Union européenne dans un contexte de pénurie et de flambée des prix.
Essay written in March 2015 for the competition “Azerbaijan: European Taste of the Orient”.
Essay sponsored by the French Union of Electricity for the student competition Eurelectric 2012 on the topic “Can innovation in the electricity industry jumpstart a clean energy economy? What concrete actions are necessary to drive this change?”.
Puisque les prix, et donc dans diverses proportions les revenus, sont aujourd’hui tirés vers le haut par l’inflation, les contribuables français devront-ils payer un plus gros impôt sur le revenu en devenant imposables ou en entrant dans des tranches supérieures ?