Originally Posted by
Less Hair
The French miffed the new german government with "their" new EU-taxonomy labeling nuclear power as being "green" now so EU support for aging french reactors will have to get co-funded by the "green" german government. All this was launched exactly when the new german government was busy with elections and setting up its coalition-structures. Now the Germans feel like moving out of Mali and buying Lightnings regardless of FCAS.
Dragging it off topic but this was an quid pro qo agreement between the german and french govt. Germany would agree to nuclear being declared green (justifiable requiest in my opinion) France would agree to the same for LNG. The germans got a lot of backlash and cancelled the agreement