06/06/2011 (Agence Europe) - Germany is phasing out nuclear power - French energy minister wants EU-level talks. The French energy minister, Eric Besson, said in a television interview on Monday 6 June (La Chaîne Info) that he had asked EU Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger to arrange a meeting of EU energy ministers to discuss Germany's decision to phase out nuclear power by 2022 (see EUROPE 10389). The ministers will be meeting for the second Energy Council under the Hungarian Presidency in Luxembourg on 10 June, where they are expected to endorse the agreement concluded on 24 May between the European Nuclear Energy Regulators Group (ENSREG) and the European Commission on the nuclear stress tests that all member states with nuclear power stations must apply to their working power plants by the end of the year (see EUROPE 10386). (E.H./transl.fl)