PARIS- French Finance minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday high energy prices were a key issue for all the European countries, adding it was now the time to have coordinated EU response to tackle the issue.

"It is time to have a European response. It is time to have a look at the energy market", Le Maire told reporters just before the Eurogroup meeting in Luxemburg, echoing what his Spanish counterpart had said moments earlier.

(Reporting by Jan Strupczewski and Marine Strauss; Writing by Benoit Van Overstraeten; Editing by) ((benoit.vanoverstraeten@thomsonreuters.com; +33149495339;))