French President Emmanuel Macron has criticized Germany’s course in the energy crisis. “I think it’s not good, neither for Germany nor for Europe, that they isolate themselves,” said Macron on Friday at the sidelines of an EU summit in Brussels. “We absolutely have to maintain our unity.” He will be with Chancellor Olaf Scholz work together on a solution.
Germany is currently under criticism, among other things, because it rejects a European gas price cap that the majority of EU countries are calling for. France supports such a price cap, especially for gas used for electricity production. Macron spoke of “mechanisms to better separate gas and electricity prices”.
In addition, the federal government has been criticized for the 200 billion euro relief package, since other states cannot afford such measures. Macron said he would advocate joint debt programs. Scholz rejects this. On Thursday he pointed out that there was still a lot of money available from the EU support program created during the Corona crisis.
