“There will be costs for our economy, potential costs for the French and French women”, lamented Yannick Jadot, environmental candidate for the presidential election, Monday, February 28 on franceinfo, in the context of the war in Ukraine. According to him, one must “to prepare” that has “Russia closes its gas exports to Europe”.
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“We have seen our vulnerability in health, today we see our vulnerability in energy”he continued, considering that “if there is a time when we have to rethink our model, it’s now”.
Urgently, “to avoid shocks to purchasing power”Yannick Jadot pleaded for the establishment of a “energy check of 400 euros for the 6 million families who already benefit from it and 100 euros for the 15 million families in the above bracket”. But in the long run, “to become sovereign again from an energy point of view”the candidate called for a “massive investment plan” European Union on energy saving. He stressed the need for “get out of dependence on fossil fuels” and gave as an example “French uranium which comes from Kazakhstan under Russian control, from Uzbekistan, under Russian control and from Niger, where the situation is complicated” or the case of Germany where “half of the gas storage is managed by Gazprom”the Russian gas giant.
“Renewable energies are energies of security and international freedom since we do not depend on anyone, if not on wind, sun and water.”
Yannick Jadotat franceinfo
According to him, “beyond our energy sovereignty”, “it is the key to the purchasing power of the French and French women”. “It limits all the execrable complacency vis-à-vis Vladimir Putin and it’s good for the climate”, he summarized. The Green candidate also called “to act in solidarity” and to “mutualize the costs and the risks of shortages if there were to be any”. Even if the scenarios mentioned assume that there will be no “no supply problem until next winter”there can – according to him – be “difficulties within the European Union”.
For Yannick Jadot, “what is happening is the attempt to establish a new world order” from the “dictatorships” like “China buying agricultural land in France, or Russia wanting to control us from an energy point of view”. “It’s a capitalism that exempts itself from any environmental responsibility”denounced the environmental candidate.