{"id":4436,"date":"2023-09-18T17:58:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T15:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4436"},"modified":"2023-09-18T17:58:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T15:58:34","slug":"france-and-germany-clash-for-eus-industrial-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4436","title":{"rendered":"France and Germany clash for EU&#8217;s industrial crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">France issued an ultimatum, and Germany refused in an increasingly bitter standoff that has exposed the consequences of the region&#8217;s energy crisis and the European Union&#8217;s green agenda.<\/p>\n<p>While the dispute centers around the role of nuclear power in the bloc&#8217;s future energy mix, it is ultimately about where the industrial heart of Europe lies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernments in both Paris and Berlin are looking at how to provide electricity at the lowest cost,\u201d said Christian Egenhofer, a senior researcher at the CEPS think-tank in Brussels. \u201cIt\u2019s almost a matter of political survival.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>France is now seeking to gain an advantage in revising EU electricity market rules to help extend the life of its aging and indebted reactor fleet.<\/p>\n<p>The plan would allow the government to provide more stability for state-owned Electricite de France SA and attract new sources of funding to extend the life of its reactors.<\/p>\n<p>Berlin is blocking the initiative as Germany tries to rebuild its own energy system after the collapse of Russian gas supplies last year and the end of a decade-long journey to shut down its nuclear reactors earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Europe&#8217;s largest economy fears that France could drive down German power prices if Paris&#8217; proposed regulation allows EDF to sell electricity at unprofitable prices.<\/p>\n<p>The spat over energy prices is just one aspect of the tensions between the two countries. This year, France and Germany clashed over key elements of the green deal.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France issued an ultimatum, and Germany refused in an increasingly bitter standoff that has exposed the consequences of the region&#8217;s energy crisis and the European Union&#8217;s green agenda. While the dispute centers around the role of nuclear power in the bloc&#8217;s future energy mix, it is ultimately about where the industrial heart of Europe lies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}