(4 Oct 2022)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Berlin - 4 October 2022
1. Wide of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte exiting car and shaking hands with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
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Berlin - 4 October 2022
2. Rutte and Scholz sitting down
3. Wide of Rutte and Scholz sitting
4. Medium of Rutte and Scholz
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Berlin - 4 October 2022
5. Wide of Rutte and Scholz walking to lecterns
6. Photographers
7. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
"So overall a very balanced, a very smart, a very decisive package, but one that serves to keep prices down and bearable for citizens, for businesses, for as long as there is this challenge. But the main task is: prices have to come down and the energy infrastructure in Europe has to be developed in such a way that we have all the possibilities of importing gas at every corner in Europe so that we don't have to rely on imports from Russia."
8. Wide of Scholz speaking
9. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Mark Rutte, Dutch Prime Minister:
"I think Germany has every right to take national measures. But it is always, and we do that together, in the absolute conviction that we are also working together in Europe for a strong energy market. And we are pulling that together."
10. Wide of Rutte speaking
11. Wide of cameramen
12. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
"We all want to put pressure on prices to go down in international markets. They have to come down. That's what it's all about when we talk to each other. They are too high today and they are not justified by the relationship between supply and demand. That means we have to get speculation out and prices have to reach a reasonable level. And that is well below what we have today."
13. Wide of Scholz speaking
14. Close of Rutte speaking
15. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Mark Rutte, Dutch Prime Minister:
"This is not an ideology. What works, that works. This is how we have to look at it. We have to be pragmatic. My concern is that if you put a cap on the gas price, then that gas price goes down. That's fine. But if that stops the gas from coming to us, for example, and deflects to Asia and doesn't come to Europe, then we have a problem. So you have to do it reasonably. You have to do it wisely."
16. Close of journalist taking notes
17. Wide of news conference
STORYLINE:
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and several ministers from both governments met in Berlin on Tuesday for an exchange on key climate policy issues.
During a news conference after the meeting, Scholz defended the 200 billion euro "gas price break" that his government introduced.
"A very balanced, a very smart, a very decisive package, but one that serves to keep prices down and bearable for citizens, for businesses, for as long as there is this challenge," Scholz said.
Rutte also defended Germany's decision.
"I think Germany has every right to take national measures," he said. "But it is always, and we do that together, in the absolute conviction that we are also working together in Europe for a strong energy market. And we are pulling that together."
The Dutch government unveiled details of its energy price cap for consumers Tuesday and the outlines of a subsidy system aimed at easing the pain for small-to-medium-sized businesses that use a lot of power.
The moves come amid soaring prices for gas and electricity caused by Russia's illegal war in Ukraine and moves across Europe to get a grip on skyrocketing energy bills that have forced some businesses in the Netherlands to halt production.
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