MIL-OSI Europe: Written question – Commission challenging France’s energy success, ignoring the EU’s climate and environmental challenges – E-001873/2024

Question for written answer  E-001873/2024
to the Commission
Rule 144
Jordan Bardella (PfE)

On 11 September 2023, former Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson publicly reprimanded France for its energy policy, saying that it had yet to meet its climate targets given the share of renewable electricity in its energy mix.

Now, with Parliament about to decide on the Commissioners nominated by Ursula von der Leyen, it would seem that the candidates Teresa Ribera[1] (energy transition) and Dan Jorgensen[2] (energy) also share the same hostility to nuclear energy. With these two appointments, Brussels continues to show its ideological blindness in favouring intermittent and variable energies.

• 1.Will the Commission propose a further revision of the Renewable Energy Directive with a view to including all low-carbon energy sources?
• 2.Not forgetting that it is guardian of the Euratom Treaty, does it still see a place for nuclear energy in Europe’s energy future?

Submitted: 30.9.2024

• [1] https://www.lefigaro.fr/conjoncture/francois-d-orcival-teresa-ribera-une-pourfendeuse-du-nucleaire-aux-cotes-d-ursula-von-der-leyen-20240925
• [2] https://www.information.dk/debat/2022/02/dan-joergensen-atomkraft-maa-aldrig-del-loesningen-danmark