For starters, it could alleviate the social hardship that will arise when the price for heating alone exceeds household income. At the same time, the EU should help to address the cause of extraordinary heating costs: the woeful energy inefficiency of most of the existing housing stock.
首先，欧盟可以帮助缓和取暖价格一项便超过家庭收入所造成的社会问题。与此同时，欧盟可以帮助解决取暖成本高企的根源：几乎所有建成房屋的能源效率都十分低下。