An updating tracker of policy measures taken by EU member states in response to the 2026 energy shock — covering price controls, fiscal measures, sectoral support, social protection, and supply-security obligations.
Click a country for the measure-level breakdown, political context, and electricity-mix profile.
Coverage. 15 EU member states currently in the pilot dataset. Final tracker will cover EU27.
Status definitions. Measures in force — at least one fiscal, regulatory, or social measure currently applying. Under discussion — measure announced or in parliamentary debate, not yet in force. None reported — no qualifying measure identified.
Cost figures. Headline cost in € million; share of GDP computed against IMF WEO GDP estimates for the relevant fiscal year.
Electricity mix. 2025 generation share by fuel, rounded to one decimal; rows sum to 100 % ± 1 (validated by the verifier).
This tracker catalogues policy measures taken by EU member states in response to elevated wholesale energy prices in 2026. It builds on the structure first developed by the Institut Jacques Delors immediate-responses tracker and applies it to the current cycle of national interventions, with an EMPN-specific methodological layer documented here.
Data sources. Measure-level entries are compiled from national ministry announcements (e.g. Légifrance for France; BMWK for Germany; MASE for Italy) cross-referenced against national-regulator publications (ARERA, CRE, BNetzA). Each row carries a primary source URL accessible from the Sources tab in the country panel.
Measure categories follow the 8-category typology established by IJD: price controls, fiscal measures, margin regulation, sectoral support, social protection, conservation, supply security, electrification. Each measure is single-categorised on its primary policy instrument.
Cost estimates. Country-level headline figures sum the announced fiscal envelope of each measure. Where a measure's cost is announced as a range, the midpoint is used and a caveat recorded. The "% of GDP" denominator is the IMF WEO April 2026 GDP estimate for the relevant fiscal year.
Electricity mix. 2025 generation shares by fuel are drawn from Ember's European Electricity Review for the most recent year available. The Mineral-arc colour mapping (Nuclear · Wind · Hydro · Solar · Bioenergy · Gas · Oil · Coal) follows our schema.
Validation. Every committed dataset passes an 11-check verifier (schema, allowed values, referential integrity, mix percentage sums, future dates, citation presence, etc.) on every push and on every scheduled refresh. Verifier source: pipeline/verify.py.
Known limitations. The pilot covers 15 member states; the full tracker will cover EU27. Sub-national measures (Länder-level, regional) are not currently captured. Indirect measures (state-owned utility decisions, price-setting via captured regulators) are excluded by design.
Full code, data, and verifier history are available on GitHub: github.com/lucas-vivier/empn-tracker-pilot. A longer-form methodology page is available at /methodology.
EMPN (2026). 'EU national responses to the 2026 energy shock', version of 3 June 2026. European Macroeconomic Policy Network. Available at https://trackers.empn.eu/energy-shock. DOI: 10.xxxxx/empn-tracker-pilot.
Data published under CC BY 4.0. Code released under the MIT licence.