Speaking in the French National Assembly on Wednesday 16 November, the Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, said that France would abstain from the vote in the Council of the European Union to define the EU’s position on the modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT).
In force since 1998, this international treaty for the protection of investments in the energy sector has been revised to bring it more in line with new climate and energy realities. This...