This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. Olaf Scholz, who took over from German chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday, hasn't addressed French concerns about the EU's position on nuclear energy. While the meeting was billed as an attempt to reaffirm the Paris-Berlin alliance, questions hung in the air about the role nuclear energy could play in the fight against climate change.
MIT scientist says the Earth is on the brink of mass extinction. Germany has always had an uneasy relationship with nuclear, which in 2010 accounted for about 22.4 percent of the country's electricity supply. After the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011 Ms Merkel announced the complete withdrawal from nuclear with plans to close all plants by 2022. The decision was criticised at the time as a move to boost the former chancellor's ratings. By the year 2017 less than 12 percent of the country's electricity came from nuclear power.
He was joined by the leaders of Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia last year. About 70 percent of France's total energy production was accounted for by nuclear power, with France ranking among the top 20 countries for nuclear energy. The meeting on Friday saw Mr Scholz reaffirm Germany's commitment to phasing out coal and strengthening the country's climate protection efforts. He said that we are concentrating on realizing that programme and making our contribution.