"Yes to Russian gas, no to French nuclear power?" This is not serious"

By Alan Posener (Die Welt)

The European Commission's plan to classify gas energy and nuclear energy as sustainable transition technologies is to be praised for its wisdom.

Any other decision would have torn the European Union apart.

And this tear would have widened at the heart of the Europe of the atom, within this partnership without which there would have been neither European Union nor euro, and without which the objective of a "

", that the new federal government calls for, would be impossible to achieve: the one that unites France and Germany.

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While France obtains 70% of its electricity from its nuclear power plants and thus occupies the first place in the world in terms of the share of the energy mix based on the atom, Germany has shut down three of its nuclear power plants in this regard. beginning of the year and plans to unplug the last three this year.

Gas therefore occupies an increasingly important place in energy consumption ...

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