The topics will be “the supply of gas and electricity for the winter”, indicates a source within the executive to franceinfo.
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Emmanuel Macron will chair on the morning of Friday September 2 a Defense Council devoted to the energy crisis, learned franceinfo Monday August 29 from government sources. Attending this meeting will be Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire and Energy Transition Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher.
The topics covered will be “the supply of gas and electricity in view of the winter”indicates a source within the executive that justifies the activation of this format: “These are the vital interests of the country and of the French people.” The objective is to take stock and if necessary make decisions on the electricity production capacities facing an adviser to the executive. “to the failures of EDF”discuss gas supplies for the winter when France must do without Russian gas, and even if Emmanuel Macron assured a few days ago that there would be no problem.
Elisabeth Borne who Monday afternoon in front of the bosses is considering the “rationing” when Emmanuel Macron launched in his July 14 interview a call for “general mobilization”. The Defense Council is therefore in a way the culmination of this desire to get the French on board, to encourage them to change their behavior, to actually show sobriety.
A tool for decision making, but also for communication. The Defense and National Security Councils, meetings in a restricted format around the Head of State, are usually devoted to military matters. Before the energy subjects, Emmanuel Macron had extended the activation of this body in an unprecedented way to health issues during the Covid-19 crisis.