EDF, the French electricity utility, is connecting this week the Flamanville EPR nuclear reactor to the grid. That good news, yet, is accompanied by the usual negative comments regarding the exceptional length of the works (a 12 years delay) and the construction huge cost overruns (10 billion). If these points are undisputable, they must not mask another very positive reality for France which so has reestablished its capacity to build nuclear power plants. This one had been seriously affected by several major strategic mistakes.

There was first the refusal, at the end of the Nineties, by the successive governments to ...

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The approach of the maturities fixed by the European Commission begins to start to become aware about the challenges and the risks to which a strategic industrial sector is confronted with. It would be the time. In 2035, the sale of cars with a thermal engine will be forbidden. From 2025, the carmakers which will not reach a determined level of sales of private electric vehicles will be hurt by penalties which could reach several billion each year. These arrangements have as an objective to reduce the CO2 emissions of the States-members. They have been adopted by the European Parliament ...

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Every year, the oil group BP, this time in association with the consultant Energy Research, publishes accurate statistics regarding production and consumption of all energy sources in every country. The year 2023 results show the growth trend of fossil fuels production and consumption has gone on. Deep divergences exist between countries. The countries which are the most committed to the fight against climate warming, as France, are these which are carrying the less the responsibility. A deep gap is so persisting between political speech and realities.

Oil world production between 2013 and 2023 has grown from 86.6 to 96 ...

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