melinda crane, and standing by for us at the east summit in prague, is dw brussels beer chief, alexandra vaughn. norman and alexandra, if i can start with you soaring energy prices and how to tackle them. now that is the main issue facing the e u. leaders in prague, isn't it? is it unrealistic to expect any kind of solution today? well, i don't think that we can expect a solution to day 1st of course is this an informal summit and that means that that leaders are not expected to make any decisions. however, another reason why i'm not expecting a solution today is because we are hearing from a delegations here from, from our sources that the leaders are not moving any closer to a solution that could be, at least from the perspective of many members, states, a price kept on gas imports, but it is apparently still germany, debt is opposing such a decision. and as i said, we rather would expect a leaders to discuss and then to agree, at least on a direction they would like to go. but it doesn't seem that that is happening here, melinda, and there's been an awful lot of talk, hasn't there about a ca