Faced with a complete cut off of Russian gas supplies, European countries are relying on each other to get through the upcoming winter. In the case of France, the country has agreed to deliver gas to Germany in exchange for electricity. FRANCE 24 weighs up the stakes of this unprecedented agreement.
France has been delivering gas to Germany since October 13. In return, Berlin has undertaken to supply it with more electricity to compensate for its flagging nuclear production. The unprecedented agreement between the two countries, which was signed at the beginning of September by French President Emmanuel Macron and the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, was presented as both a concrete step and symbol of the "energy solidarity" at work in Europe to overcome a winter without Russian energy.
