DECRYPTION – Neither friend nor enemy of the atom, the Prime Minister was the good student of a fluctuating energy policy.
The construction of a new fleet of 6 or even 8 EPR nuclear reactors is one of the most significant and structuring commitments for the French economy in Emmanuel Macron’s program for his second five-year term. Is his new Prime Minister the right person to lead this project? Which line of Elisabeth Borne’s CV should we rely on to understand her positions in the field of energy in general and nuclear power in particular? To his X-Bridges training? Historically, this body is the one that provided the battalions for the adventure of building and operating the nuclear fleet at EDF.
Or should we focus on these moments when his career crossed the history of the atom? Director of cabinet to Ségolène Royal at the Ministry of Ecological Transition in 2014-2015, Élisabeth Borne, in this capacity, participated in the drafting of the energy transition law for green growth (LTE) carried by her minister and voted on by the Summer 2015, a few months later…
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