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"First they liberalised the energy sector. The consequences of this are well known: the formation of private monopolies, high prices, little attention to consumers and huge profits.
Now Parliament, which supports this option, wants to adopt new rules to prevent abuses in the wholesale energy market and, supposedly, to protect consumers. Under the Commission’s proposal, the monitoring of these markets will take place at EU level so as to ‘enable Member States to prevent and punish anti-competitive behaviour’. They forget that they contributed to this by facilitating privatisation and monopolistic concentration in this area. In the name of their god, the market, they promoted deregulation processes, with disastrous consequences, as attested by several studies.
This Regulation on Energy Market Integrity and Transparency (REMIT) will be applied to the trade of wholesale energy products, and particularly to contracts and derivatives related to the production, supply and transport of natural gas and electricity.
Now they are saying that ‘energy must remain affordable for everyone as it is the key to the economy’. However, they are concealing the fact that price liberalisation brought serious problems, that energy poverty is increasingly the unfortunate reality for consumers, and that small and medium-sized enterprises have seen their production costs grow significantly; there are still no responses to this situation."@en1
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