The president promised during his greetings to “accelerate the deployment of renewable energies” in parallel with the “launch of the construction of new nuclear power plants”.
France must “win” the “battle” of the “ecological transition”, Emmanuel Macron declared on Saturday in his wishes for the new year, promising to “accelerate the deployment of renewable energies” in parallel with the “launch of the construction of new nuclear power stations.
Regarding the threat of power cuts this winter, “it’s in our hands,” said the head of state. “If we continue to save energy as we have been doing for a few months” and if “we continue to bring our nuclear reactors back into service as planned, we will get there”, he assured.
An “imperative of national unity”
Emmanuel Macron on Saturday called on the French to “unity” during these same wishes for 2023, which he confirmed would be the year of pension reform to “work more”.
Evoking an “imperative of national unity”, the Head of State wished in this 19-minute televised speech, in front of the library of his personal office at the Elysée, “to live 2023 as much as possible in a united country and solidarity”. “If we gave in to the spirit of division that presses us from all sides, we would have almost no chance of getting by in such a harsh world, in such hard times,” he warned.
