The gas price corridor, “should act as a circuit breaker and disincentive to speculation. It is not meant to suppress prices at an artificially low level,” according to the draft proposal, as reported by Reuters.
EU leaders are due to consider possible caps to gas prices at the Prague summit Friday.
“This is our collective problem,” Morawiecki said. “It cannot be so, that one country, which is the richest and the most developed in Europe like Germany … can block everything which is now happening.”
“We don’t want to be patronised by some countries which then behave in a completely different way than they were expected to do just before,” he added.
Also speaking in Prague, EU Parliament President Roberta Metsola said the bloc needed to provide a united response to the energy crisis.
“There is need for an EU-wide gas price cap,” Metsola said.
She said that EU member states could be given more time if necessary, but that it was important for countries not to “outbid each other.”
“I think this is the way to be able to bring the prices down and stop speculation, and at the end of the day show Putin he’s not the one to dictate to us who pays and how we pay our bills,” she added.
