France took over presidency of the European Union on
1 July. French president Nicolas Sarkozy has made energy and climate change one of his four main priorities during France’s six-month period of office. He wants to make the EU a global model for environmental protection and will push for more nuclear power as a way of fighting climate change. Sarkozy will also seek to ensure that climate mitigation measures do not harm EU competitiveness. In addition, France wants to secure agreement by December on measures to achieve the European Commission’s energy and climate-change package, which was unveiled in January (EiB March, p.1) and aims to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 20% by 2020.

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