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Foreign minister: increasing French participation in Paks nuclear power plant 2
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Hungary is in talks on increasing the role of France’s Framatome in the expansion of the Paks nuclear power plant with a view to preventing the German government from being able to block the delivery of control technology required for the project, the minister of foreign affairs and trade said in Flamanville on Monday.
The expansion of the Paks plant cannot succeed without cooperation with France, given that the control system for the new reactor blocks is being supplied by a French-German consortium, Péter Szijjártó said after inspecting Framatome’s nuclear plant being built in Flamanville, according to a ministry statement.
Szijjártó said it was “unfair” that the German government continued to block delivery of the system to Hungary, arguing that decisions concerning the energy mix fell under national competences and that energy security was a matter of sovereignty.
The government is therefore in talks on further increasing the role of France’s Framatome in the project so that Berlin cannot continue to block the delivery of control technology, Szijjártó said.
Germany is a sovereign country – “unfair” for us may be sound policy to them (sounds familiar?).
I’m sure the French also have their policy considerations – and our Politicians will have to play nice (compromise?) to ensure their cooperation.