Fresh into a new mandate but without a parliamentary majority since legislative elections on Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron will now have to hammer out an energy policy caught between the gas crisis caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and an increasingly vocal green movement. Germany faces similar problems.
France's EDF currently operates 56 nuclear reactors, generating 80 percent of its electricity. But only 50 percent of the service is fully operational as a result of maintenance issues, corrosion and lack of investment.
