Energy prices: Brussels seeks new answers to familiar problems

The Commission presents a new package on investment and citizen energy, and Ursula von der Leyen changes course on nuclear policy. Meanwhile, short-term responses to rising energy prices focus increasingly on emissions trading.

11. March 2026
HAIKOU, Aug. 10, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 10, 2023 shows the assembly site of the core module of the world's first commercial small modular reactor, Linglong One, in Changjiang Li Autonomous County, south China's Hainan Province. TO GO WITH "China's small nuclear reactor completes core module assembly" (China National Nuclear Corporation/Handout via Xinhua
Construction of a small modular nuclear power plant (SMR) in China (picture alliance / Xinhua News Agency | Liu Yiwei)

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Last updated: 11. March 2026