France combines energy and environment

[IHT, 19 May; Thomson Financial, 20 May] New French President Nicolas Sarkozy has named his cabinet, placing former prime minister Alain Juppe as minister for environment and sustainable development. The new portfolio includes the energy remit. Juppe told the Journal Du Dimanche newspaper: "Over the next three or four decades, nuclear energy is not the only solution, but there is no solution without nuclear energy."
[IHT, 19 May; Thomson Financial, 20 May] New French President Nicolas Sarkozy has named his cabinet, placing former prime minister Alain Juppe as minister for environment and sustainable development. The new portfolio includes the energy remit. Juppe told the Journal Du Dimanche newspaper: "Over the next three or four decades, nuclear energy is not the only solution, but there is no solution without nuclear energy."

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