{"id":504023,"date":"2022-07-07T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T05:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=504023"},"modified":"2022-07-07T13:14:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T07:44:41","slug":"french-government-plans-to-nationalise-electricity-giant-edf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/french-government-plans-to-nationalise-electricity-giant-edf\/","title":{"rendered":"French Government plans to nationalise electricity giant EDF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said Wednesday that the government plans to nationalize French electricity giant EDF amid an energy crisis aggravated by Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p>The French state now holds an 84% stake in the company, one of the world&#8217;s biggest electricity producers. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must have full control over our electricity production and performance,&#8221; Borne said in her first major speech to France&#8217;s parliament. &#8220;We must ensure our sovereignty in the face to the consequences of the war (in Ukraine) and the colossal challenges to come. &#8230; That&#8217;s why I confirm to you the state&#8217;s intention to own 100% of EDF&#8217;s capital.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said Wednesday that the government plans to nationalize French electricity giant EDF amid an energy crisis aggravated by Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine. The French state now holds an 84% stake in the company, one of the world&#8217;s biggest electricity producers. &#8220;We must have full control over our electricity production and performance,&#8221; Borne said in her first major speech to France&#8217;s parliament. &#8220;We must ensure our sovereignty in the face to the consequences of the war (in Ukraine) and the colossal challenges to come. &#8230; That&#8217;s why I confirm to you the state&#8217;s intention to own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}