EU leaders avoid deep rift on gas price cap at energy summit

French President Emmanuel Macron highlighted his work with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to create a veneer of unity after talks that started early on Thursday

France’s President Emmanuel Macron (Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP)

European Union leaders are struggling to find immediate practical solutions on how to deal with the energy crisis while avoiding an open rift between Germany and France.

After day-long talks in Brussels on Thursday dragged well into the night, the 27 EU leaders papered over divisions between some of the biggest member states and at least agreed to continue working on ways to impose a gas price cap in case of big price increases.