At the moment when we learnt that EDF and General Electric had started discussions about the buy-out of the production and the maintenance of the turbines equipping the nuclear power plants, which had been bought to Alstom six years earlier, was announced that the France trade deficit had reached a record with 84.7 billion euro. But no connection was made between the news. Yet the connection exists and it is essential. 2021 has been affected by a strong increase of the energy bill since the second half of the year, as a consequence of the geopolitical tensions which had ...