Laura Laplaud
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09:01, September 12, 2022
The French energy bill has soared by 28% in one year according to INSEE. For François-Xavier Bellamy, MEP LR, guest of Europe Matin this Monday, the war in Ukraine is not the only one responsible for the energy crisis that France is going through. Governments also have their share of responsibility.
Is the energy crisis due to the war in Ukraine or to the choices of our rulers in Europe? For François-Xavier Bellamy, MEP Les Républicains (LR), guest of Europe Matin this Monday, there is no doubt, “there is obviously an immense responsibility of our rulers and in particular of Emmanuel Macron. “
“When Emmanuel Macron tries to make us believe that the power cuts that are taking shape for this winter are the price of our values, that it is because of the war [en Ukraine] it is obviously a gigantic lie”, he launched on Europe 1.
The state of the French nuclear fleet questioned
“I can give you a very simple proof of this, two years ago in the European Parliament, I intervened to say that we were going to experience on European soil and in France in particular, power cuts and that we were going to experience shortages,” he said. Shortages which did not happen because of the war in Ukraine, according to the deputy, but “because of the very degraded state of our nuclear fleet and because of the closure of the Fessenheim power plant”.
“I am thinking in particular of all the workers, all the technicians and engineers at Fessenheim who are people who work with an incredible concern for high standards and integrity and who must be disgusted today, when France is about to return in a period of great tension in terms of its power supply, to hear the President of the Republic shirk his responsibility”, he concluded.