EU leaders reaffirm support for Ukraine, squabble over gas price cap

 

European Union leaders on Friday agreed to give more financial and military aid to Ukraine, but a full day of talks in Prague’s ornate royal castle seemed to bring them no closer to deciding on whether or how to cap gas prices. 

“Everyone agrees we need to lower power prices but there is no agreement what instruments to use to that end exactly,” Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said. 

Italy’s Mario Draghi said the bloc’s executive European Commission would present for the next meeting of EU leaders on Oct. 20-21 a broader package of short-term measures to lower prices and longer-term steps to redesign the electricity market.