France to Announce Targeted Measures Amid Rising Energy Prices from Iran War
\nGovernment Response to Energy Price Spikes<\/p>\n
PARIS, March 26 (Reuters) – France will announce targeted measures in the coming days to address energy price spikes driven by the Iran war, French finance minister Roland Lescure said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Support for Affected Sectors<\/p>\n
The government is preparing support for sectors hit hard by rising costs, including trucking companies and fisheries that are struggling to pay their energy bills, he said.<\/p>\n
Upcoming Announcements<\/p>\n
“In the next few days we will be able to announce new measures,” Lescure said in an interview with French broadcaster RTL.<\/p>\n
Previous and Future Measures<\/p>\n
“We have already taken steps for those, we are looking at what we call high-mileage drivers, but we will do so again in a targeted manner.” <\/p>\n
International Coordination<\/p>\n
Lescure said he had called a meeting with G7 finance ministers, energy ministers and central bankers for Monday to discuss the situation.<\/p>\n
Reporting and Editing Credits<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Makini Brice; Editing by Inti Landauro and Ros Russell)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France to Announce Targeted Measures Amid Rising Energy Prices from Iran War Government Response to Energy Price Spikes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,164913,164915,164917,61,60,164916,164914],"class_list":["post-365884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-france-energy-prices","tag-french-finance-minister-energy","tag-g7-meeting-energy-crisis","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-support-for-energy-price-spikes","tag-targeted-energy-measures-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}