Diesel prices in the EU: a historic level reached

Direct Carburants: the pump price of diesel in the European Union reaches its highest historical level

According to this weekly data available since 2005, records were broken this week in 19 EU countries, including Germany, France and Italy, under the effect of energy shocks due to wars in the Middle East and Ukraine.

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Diesel pump prices in the European Union (EU) reached a new peak at 2.23 euros per liter compared to 2.16 euros a week earlier, according to national data published Thursday September 24 by the European Commission. According to these weekly data available since 2005, records have been broken in 19 countries of the European Union (EU) including Germany, France and Italy, under the effect of energy shocks due to wars in the Middle East and between Russia and Ukraine. Follow our live stream.

Medef is ironic about the fuel bonus. “Giving the hot potato to businesses is a bit inflated,” commented the president of the employers’ organization, Patrick Martin, on franceinfo on Thursday. Detailing its response to the surge in pump prices on Tuesday, the government announced in particular the increase in the ceiling of a bonus that employers can pay to their employees, from 600 to 1,000 euros. “What he can't do, and he really can't do it, he would like companies to do,” observes the boss of bosses.

The aid decided in the spring underused. Of the 1.4 billion euros that the government has set aside to pay all fuel aid since the beginning of spring following the surge in prices at the pump, only 800 million euros have really been claimed, the office of Budget Minister David Amiel said on Wednesday. The non-recourse rate is therefore significant.

Emmanuel Macron interviewed on France 2 and TF1. The surge in prices at the pump and the state of the Russian threat should occupy most of Emmanuel Macron's interview on Thursday at 8 p.m. on both channels. The opportunity to show, seven months after his departure from the Elysée, that his action remains correlated with the daily lives of the French.

#ENERGY_CRISE "This aid is absolutely derisory", denounced this morning on franceinfo the MEP La France insoumise Manon Aubry, after the government aid in the face of the rise in fuel prices. “This government continues to do a form of scattering. By not wanting to bother Total, they are bothering millions of French people.”

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#ENERGY_CRISE “Giving the hot potato to companies is a bit inflated,” denounces on franceinfo the president of Medef, Patrick Martin, after the government's announcement of a new increase in the ceiling of the fuel bonus paid by the employer. “It [the government] should do more, but it cannot do more,” he observes about government aid. Follow our live stream.

#FIRES The Bouches-du-Rhône department is at very high risk (red) of forest fires today, Météo-France announced yesterday evening. Ten departments are placed at high risk (orange): Pyrénées-Orientales, Aude, Hérault, Aveyron, Gard, Ardèche, Drôme, Vaucluse, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Var.

#RUSSIA State services detected "432 digital interferences from abroad in the first half of 2026", announced Laurent Nuñez, the Minister of the Interior, in the "20-Heures" of France 2. In 2025, "for the whole year, it was 430", specifies the tenant of Beauvau, who recalls that Russian interference is very "real" and that France "does not absolutely cannot underestimate [them].

#UNITED STATES #CHINA Chinese President Xi Jinping, on a state visit to the United States, calls for cooperation with Washington, according to Beijing state media. “Our two countries should be partners rather than rivals,” the leader said in a note published by the official New China news agency.

#ENERGY_CRISE “It [the government] should do more, but it cannot do more,” declared on franceinfo the president of Medef, Patrick Martin, on the subject of government aid in the face of rising fuel prices.

#CRISE_ENERGETIQUE#PAPE As for the regional press, Alsace is interested in the beneficiaries of state aid in the face of rising fuel prices. Le Dauphiné Libération devotes its front page to the interview with Emmanuel Macron this evening, while La Dépêche du Midi headlines the visit of Pope Leo XIV to France.