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“Poison”, “wet finger” policy… Before the commission of inquiry into the country’s loss of energy independence, Henri Proglio lets go.
By Geraldine Woessner
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Iran the company from 2009 to 2014, at that critical moment when the policy of opening up the electricity market to competition, decided by Brussels at the end of the 1990s, fully came into effect. Dismissed from his post by François Hollande in favor of Jean-Bernard Levy, then deemed more in line with the government’s nuclear degrowth projects, Henri Proglio let go of the reins before the deputies on December 13, openly accusing Brussels and “successive governments for having deliberately ransacked the French electricity system since 2010.
When he took over as head of the public company “at the beginning of the 21ste century”, he says, “EDF is an energy exporter, has the cheapest prices in Europe (two and a half times cheaper than Germany…
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