You’re reading Rapporteur on Friday 6 March. This is Nicoletta Ionta, joined by Eddy Wax in Brussels.
Need-to-knows:
🟢 Brussels fears a fresh energy shock
🟢 Exclusive: MEPs consider easing travel and allowance rules
🟢 Ukraine’s €90 billion EU loan fight turns personal
On the roundabout: Commissioner Várhelyi’s cocaine warning.
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From the capital
Brussels is talking itself back into an energy crisis. With the new Middle East war far from over and hostilities threatening traffic through the Strait of Hormuz – the Persian Gulf gateway for a fifth of global LNG and a quarter of oil – Ursula von der Leyen has convened commissioners to discuss energy prices today.
Markets have moved. European gas prices jumped about 70% this week and oil…
