The newspaper pointed out that the sharp rise in natural gas prices in Europe and its impact on household energy spending six months before the French presidential elections had a significant impact on the decision to build new reactors..
A French presidential spokesman declined to comment.
Macron had pledged at the beginning of his presidency to reduce reliance on nuclear reactors in energy production to 50 percent from 75 percent by 2035, but the energy price crisis is changing the atmosphere in Paris..
Le Figaro quoted an unnamed senior government official as saying, “The energy crisis shows that we are right in choosing nuclear energy in our quest to switch to environmentally friendly sources of energy.”
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