I am eager to hear what people have to say about gas and energy issues next week. I actually think Macron's announcement on nuclear power while being telegraphed for a long time I think is almost as significant as anything involving Ukraine and Russia. First compared to Macron's ambitions the US and UK look more likely Germany in their lack of ambition on the nuclear power front. Second this is a further shift be Macron into a more Gaullo-Mitterandist view of France away some of the more market oriented Atlanticism of his more immediate predecessors. Thirdly for this to work France is probably either going to have shred or opt-out of a lot of the EU's Energy Market Liberalization rules that people like Alan Riley(mentioned on the podcast) have long defended. Will other EU member states like Hungary want opt outs too? Or with the UK and it market liberalism instincts out of the EU post Brexit will basically all of the EU27 want to rip the market liberalization of the 1990s and go back to the pre 1990 system of regulated natural energy monopolies. This will have implications far beyond France.
I am eager to hear what people have to say about gas and energy issues next week. I actually think Macron's announcement on nuclear power while being telegraphed for a long time I think is almost as significant as anything involving Ukraine and Russia. First compared to Macron's ambitions the US and UK look more likely Germany in their lack of ambition on the nuclear power front. Second this is a further shift be Macron into a more Gaullo-Mitterandist view of France away some of the more market oriented Atlanticism of his more immediate predecessors. Thirdly for this to work France is probably either going to have shred or opt-out of a lot of the EU's Energy Market Liberalization rules that people like Alan Riley(mentioned on the podcast) have long defended. Will other EU member states like Hungary want opt outs too? Or with the UK and it market liberalism instincts out of the EU post Brexit will basically all of the EU27 want to rip the market liberalization of the 1990s and go back to the pre 1990 system of regulated natural energy monopolies. This will have implications far beyond France.