In a very inflationary economic context, the President of the Republic should hold a restricted meeting at the Elysée at the end of the week on the supply of gas and electricity for next winter.
Regain control. While electricity prices have been rising sharply for several weeks and France’s gas supply could be impacted if Russian gas deliveries were cut, the government itself cannot rule out the risk of cuts. power in the coming months. What pose a risk to the French and their purchasing power. In an attempt to remedy this problem, Emmanuel Macron would chair a Defense Council devoted to energy on Friday morning at the Élysée, according to information from FranceInfo . Around the Head of State, would be present the Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne or the Minister of Energy Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher.
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L’«supply» in gas and electricity will be at the center of discussions and issues in the coming weeks. Since the start of the health crisis, Emmanuel Macron has taken to convening these “Defence Councils” aimed, around a limited number of people, at making quick and immediately executable decisions. This had not failed to arouse the ire of the opposition, seeing it as a means of diverting political and parliamentary debates.
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