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"In general, I believe that our task is to avoid increasing poverty, reducing net disposable incomes, among our citizens. I believe that our work together in the coming years can bring us back to growth, to more jobs and also to the Member States, their citizens, their companies and their economies being competitive.
When it comes to energy, firstly, we, as the Commission, help to check the market, to avoid or destroy monopolies, to promote competition and to strengthen consumer rights. We have a major conference in London each year which deals solely with consumer rights; in other words, the position of the small electricity or gas or heating consumer vis-à-vis its contractual partner in an open market.
Finally, the Commission’s budgetary proposal for the years 2014-2020 takes the energy sector as one of its focal areas. We want energy research to be carried out in the public sector using European resources, thereby reducing the burden on consumers. We want to cofinance infrastructure – the Connecting Europe Facility – to the tune of EUR 19.1 billion from European budgetary resources, which will reduce the burden on electricity and gas consumers, and we want to cofinance energy efficiency by focusing our structural programmes on the renovation of European buildings, with the aim of improving energy efficiency and thus lowering electricity bills in the long term, whether for schools, kindergartens or old people’s homes, whether for private dwellings or public infrastructure."@en1
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