Tomorrow, the EU energy ministers will meet informally in Prague. The member states must quickly come to a common denominator – on joint gas purchasing, on the savings obligation, on capping the price of gas, and not least on decoupling electricity and gas prices. Consensus seems to be emerging on some of these agenda items. The issue of financing, however, is likely to generate a lot of discussions, as Claire Stam, Manuel Berkel and Till Hoppe report.