French President Emmanuel Macron announced his country’s withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), an international trade and investment agreement signed in the early 1990s to protect investment in the energy sector, on Friday 21 October at the end of a European summit in Brussels.
“We have decided to withdraw from the ECT (...)This is consistent with our positions and with the Paris Agreement”, said Mr Macron.
The French minister for the energy transition, Agnès...