Environment: Sarkozy against “bobos” – Le Point

On the environment, there are long since Nicolas Sarkozy has given up his speech green. Gone are the Grenelle Environment Forum organized when he was at the Elysee. Now the boss criticizes Republicans irrational fears and inclinations to consume differently. Tuesday demonstration at a party morning’s work on the environment, sea and energy in Paris.

“Fessenheim not close”

First subject, nuclear. He repeated his opposition to the closure of the Fessenheim plant, which is one of Hollande’s campaign promises and must be switched on this year. “We are afraid of what? From a tsunami on the Rhine?” quipped the Republican president. Nicolas Sarkozy had said in an interview with JDD Saturday that if the right returns to power in 2017, it would repeal the objective of reducing by 2025 the nuclear share of 70 to 50% in production electricity. “? If a reactor is dangerous, why not close Fessenheim and the other 53 (…) Fessenheim will not close,” he told Mr Sarkozy

“The Republicans ask one thing. It stop making nuclear power an issue of party politics. If General de Gaulle, Georges Pompidou, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, François Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac and myself, six presidents, we constantly made nuclear material the same things, is that the nuclear belongs (…) in France is one of its major assets, “he assured. “Francois Hollande is the first president to break the national consensus on nuclear power. It will carry a heavy responsibility,” he continued, worrying about a “gigantic social” on the topic.

the future is selling at the farm

on the agricultural policy, same strategy: irony. Nicolas Sarkozy opposes “a kind of ‘boboïsation’ permanent. We heard a Minister of Agriculture said that the future is for sale at the farm. We imagine a dress lace, bow tie, we’ll buy eggs at the farm … I have nothing against, I find it very friendly, you can even take a picture, put it in a frame … “quipped M . Sarkozy. He also lambasted “the annual quotas” fishing, “it can go on,” said he also assured, “unless we say close our ports, close our fishermen “.

by cons, it was also concerned with population growth in the world, including Nigeria, and requested an annual “world conference” on the topic. Nicolas Sarkozy also called for “a European carbon market prices,” a “carbon tax at Europe’s borders for not having environmental dumping”.