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Juha Korhonen criticized the government's dispute over fuel prices and tax reductions. According to him, it was about 60 million euros, and there were no plans to reduce the distribution obligation. Korhonen compared the situation to the 300 million euros sent to Ukraine less than a month earlier, which he claimed ended up in a corruption-fueling system without a similar dispute. He stated that diesel fuel still cost over 2.5 euros per liter and described the situation as the position of Finns in Finland. #polttoaine #Suomi #hallitus (translated)

The article analyzes the recent progress of the government regarding the privatization of TAP, highlighting its strategic choice of Lufthansa as the buyer and the opposition from the PS, which opposed the total sale of the company. #TAP #Privatização #PolíticaPortuguesa (translated)

The Minister of Finance, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, defends the total privatization of TAP, considering that failing to take this step would be a historical mistake for Portugal, while the government seeks consensus to proceed with the sale. #TAP #Privatização #Lufthansa (translated)

Miguel Pinto Luz warns that those who block the process are wasting an opportunity for the country and for the Portuguese. The Minister of Infrastructure, in an interview with TVI, CNN Portugal, Miguel Pinto Luz, assures that Lufthansa believes in the Portuguese State and in TAP and emphasizes that this is the first time the German group accepts a country as a shareholder. #TAP #Privatização #ProtestosPorto (translated)

Marco Setaccioli criticized Marco Travaglio for claiming that resuming purchases of Russian gas would be more advantageous for Europe than for Moscow. According to Setaccioli, sales data contradicted this thesis: since the beginning of the war, European consumption of Russian gas would have fallen from 150 billion cubic meters per year in 2021 to 18 in 2025. Of the 132 billion lost, he wrote, China would only have bought 28 more; moreover, Xi would not have wanted to build the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline. Setaccioli added that Gazprom had laid off hundreds of people and recorded losses for the first time in many years. On the topic of prices, Setaccioli stated that, before Donald Trump's move related to Iran, gas cost 32 euros per MWh, despite Russian supplies being at a minimum. He compared that price to the peak of 180 euros per MWh reached in December 2021, before the start of the war in Ukraine, when the pipelines were still intact and Russian supplies continued. According to Setaccioli, Moscow had reduced reserves and supplies to raise cash ahead of the invasion and to pressure Europe, dissuading it from supporting Kyiv. He attributed European diversification to the choice of not following the positions of Travaglio and Alessandro Di Battista, who, he wrote, had sought to stop the TAP, the pipeline that brings gas from Azerbaijan, evoking environmental damage that Puglia, according to him, was still awaiting. Finally, Setaccioli reported that the day before, the parliamentary group of the vannacciani had presented a resolution to resume purchases of Russian gas. He speculated that the proposal had come following new indications from Moscow. #gasrusso #Gazprom #energia (translated)