France's Secretary of State for European Affairs Laurence Boone has outlined to FRANCE 24 the sacrifices necessary to continue putting pressure on Moscow, saying "it is a war against Russia for democracy, for freedom and supporting Ukraine. We are not asking horrible things. To put the temperature at 19 degrees, that has always been the unspoken rule."
Key to supporting these efforts will be energy price caps, which will ensure that French and European consumers and households will be able to bear the sacrifices needed. Boone says that energy producers would no longer be able to generate "super large profits" and that those funds would serve to compensate consumers for their energy bills. She added that the EU’s solidarity mechanism would play an important role during the likely energy tensions in winter, saying “the solidarity is both ways, on the one hand we will give gas to Germany and other countries like Belgium – but they do provide us with electricity – like they did last year and the year before”.
