For over a year energy prices in Europe have been soaring, yet European institutions have been unable to shield homes and companies from spiralling costs, stalling urgent reforms and postponing decisions from month to month. It is time to stop the talk, change radically the EU energy model and work towards a fair energy system, strongly based on renewables and under public control. We cannot accept an inefficient and obsolete system that leaves workers and families in the dark and cold, while it continues to flood the coffers of Big Energy corporations.