European electricity market: France is preparing for a showdown

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The executive wants to obtain from Europe a decoupling of gas and electricity prices. Even if he does not obtain satisfaction, go to conflict?

Through Geraldine Woessner

” Lhe France is France, and when we consider certain choices essential for the French nation, we are in a position to impose them. “Ten days before a Franco-German council of ministers which promises to be highly eruptive, as the subjects of discord have accumulated between Paris and Berlin, the tone adopted in the entourage of power is turning to the offensive.

Behind the scenes, a member of the government slips that France is ready to “go to conflict” if it does not obtain from Europe the decorrelation of electricity prices from those of gas, and this “within six months” . “We must put all our political weight into it”, insists the same, visibly exasperated by a controversy that has lasted for more than a year and is in the process of turning into political conflict.

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