We're implementing mechanism that will allow us to keep energy prices at the current levels, there will be no increases in energy prices, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced on Friday.
Morawiecki said that as a result of EU's climate policy and shortcomings of predecessors "indeed there are some mechanism that push energy prices upwards".
"However, thanks to clear-cut actions by our government, we've kept our word and we're implementing mechanisms that will allow us to keep energy prices at the current levels, therefore as I said before, there will be no increases of energy prices," he said.
"In this context, I would also like to say the mechanisms we introduce pertain not only to households and citizens, but also to local governments and companies, especially those who had already signed new higher contracts with energy providers, both state-owned and private," he explained.
The prime minister added that the government's policy rests on three pillars: security, regulation and competition.
"Our energy prices must be competitive. They must be competitive for households, so that the costs that the people carry are as low as possible. The prices must be as low as possible also for businessess, for small, medium and bigger ones, so that our industries, our companies could compete on a single European market and obviosly in the whole world," he stressed.
He emphasised that a key priority is the stability of energy supplies, hence the construction of new power plants and a new strategy. The last pillar is regulation - the state has instruments that it uses to influence as best as possible "the stability of prices on one hand, and to keep money in citizens' wallets, as well as the competitiveness and investing potential of companies, on the other".
Autor: gf / Źródło: TVN24 News in English, PAP
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