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As part of the Ifri Energy Program, a seminar with Matthias Dürr, Senior Manager, European Union Affairs, RWE AG, Susanne Nies, Head of Energy Policy and Power Generation Unit, Eurelectric, and Fabien Roques, Director, European Power, IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA). Chaired by: William C. Ramsay, Senior Fellow and Director of the Ifri Energy Program and Jacques Lesourne, Chairman of the Scientific of the Ifri Energy Program.
Germany"s decision to close immediately seven nuclear power plants after the accident to Fukushima, and its subsequent decision to phase out all nuclear power by 2022 needs to be managed - and not just by Germany. The action has immediate implications for German and regional grid stability during the upcoming summer where alternative suppliers of kilowatt hours have their own challenges and Germany"s north is even more reliant on wind power. For the medium to longer term, Germany needs to find alternative sources of electricity in greater efficiency, more renewables, more fossil fuel and higher imports. German industry, a locomotive for the robust German economy is anxious about its cost of power. As the EU struggles to implement its third package, decisions by Member States will have a considerable impact on their collective success.
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China’s Nuclear Buildup: Developments, Drivers, and Implications for Major-Power Relations and Arms Control
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Reinventing Coordination in an Age of Fragmentation 3rd Paris Geoeconomic Dialogue
The world economy is being reordered. The certainties of the post-Cold War era, open trade, dollar centrality, predictable multilateral coordination, are giving way to a landscape shaped by rivalry between the United States and China, the weaponization of interdependence, and a scramble to secure supply chains, technologies and critical resources. What once looked like a stable architecture now appears fragile, contested, and in places actively being dismantled.