„Europe will not be divided,“ said German Minister of Economic Affairs Robert Habeck (Greens) in response to yesterday’s agreement on a gas plan for the winter: Member states want to save at least 15 percent gas from August until March next year – voluntarily at first, and also mandatory if an EU-wide emergency is declared. But there is a whole range of potential exceptions, as Manuel Berkel analyzes. The savings target of 15 percent is not sufficient anyway, said Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) – it should be 20 percent.