Awakened by reality! Ursula von der Leyen publicly admitted her mistake! On March 10, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, stated that Europe's abandonment of nuclear power is a "strategic mistake," which has now been exposed due to the Iran war. The reduction in nuclear power share is a choice, and I believe that Europe's abandonment of a reliable, affordable low-emission power source is a strategic mistake.
Regarding fossil fuels, we are completely dependent on expensive and highly volatile imports. This puts us at a structural disadvantage compared to other regions. Obviously, von der Leyen's public admission of fault can only be explained as Europe being painfully awakened by reality. For decades, Europe clung to extreme environmental political correctness, treating the abandonment of nuclear power as a political trend, and promoting wind and solar power as the future. They assumed that peace would last forever, and that energy was merely an economic issue, lacking consideration of energy issues from a geopolitical perspective.
The result of the Russia-Ukraine war forced Europe to pay a heavy price for cutting off Russian gas, and this Middle East conflict has further worsened the EU's energy crisis. If Europe had not been so radical in the past, they would not be in such a passive position now. Facts have proven that putting ideology above national security is very naive. After painful reflection, the EU may find that restarting nuclear power is becoming inevitable. However, Europe will have to bear the huge cost of its own wrong policies.
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