Was already part of the plan, Hugo Chavez would be proud. >**Earlier this week, European Commission President Ursula** von der Leyen said the bloc **was working out an emergency plan for intervening in energy markets, saying that soaring electricity prices were “exposing, for different reasons, the limitations of our current electricity market design**”. >“**We need a new market model for electricity that really functions and brings us back into balance,” the EC president said**. The best model would be for the government to stop interfering with energy.