{"id":444774,"date":"2025-09-23T03:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/444774\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T03:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:20:40","slug":"france-and-germany-vow-to-deepen-ties-on-green-rules-power-links-in-energy-reset-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/444774\/","title":{"rendered":"France and Germany vow to deepen ties on green rules, power links in energy \u2018reset\u2019 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, an agreement at the 25th Franco-German Council of Ministers “seeks to reconcile policy differences and promote joint initiatives that can serve as a model for broader EU collaboration,” according to a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The new “economic agenda” \u2014 spanning defense, industrial and digital policy \u2014 includes a pledge to conduct a joint study with Poland by 2026 on optimizing grid investments, and collaborate more closely on electricity-related rules such as network charges in order to lower energy prices.<\/p>\n

Notably, the two capitals also vowed to “establish a cooperative working process” on efforts to slash red tape for businesses and align their climate policies.<\/p>\n

In practice, that “might” lead to joint proposals to amend existing EU energy laws, the statement continued. It also addresses upcoming legal targets for 2040 that promote “non-discrimination among all … low-carbon energy technologies” \u2014 a common euphemism for nuclear power.<\/p>\n

France, which relies heavily on atomic energy, has long fought for nuclear to take a more prominent role in EU climate goals. In recent months, Paris pushed Brussels to adopt a renewables target for 2040 that also includes nuclear \u2014 an effort EU energy chief Dan J\u00f8rgensen has so far resisted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now, an agreement at the 25th Franco-German Council of Ministers “seeks to reconcile policy differences and promote joint…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[38231,1312,34,35,3057,6643,2000,299,36,1945,1824,1309,1303,15857,770,3046,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-444774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-dan-jorgensen","9":"tag-electricity","10":"tag-emmanuel-macron","11":"tag-energy","12":"tag-energy-markets","13":"tag-energy-prices","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-france","17":"tag-friedrich-merz","18":"tag-germany","19":"tag-hydrogen","20":"tag-nuclear-power","21":"tag-pipelines","22":"tag-poland","23":"tag-portugal","24":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115251460394074107","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}