On the issue of the development of European nuclear energy, a kind of Little Entente began to form - this is how the alliance of Eastern European countries under the auspices of France was called in the 1920s.
A century later, the configuration is suddenly repeated.
The governments of France, Romania, the Czech Republic, Finland, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary have declared the need to develop nuclear power in order to protect European energy consumers from the price volatility that has recently hit all records.
The members of the Little Entente can be understood.
The exchange price for natural gas reached $ 1900 per 1,000 cubic meters - an unheard-of figure.
The pumping of gas into the underground storages has actually been stopped: they both stood and are half-empty, meanwhile it is only mid-October outside.
This is roughly like the interruptions in bread, not even in a hungry spring, but in a seemingly well-fed autumn.
In such conditions, mental activity is sharply intensified.
As Elder Varlaam said in Boris Godunov, “even though I can do it in warehouses, even though I can’t make it out well, I’ll make it out if it comes to the loop.”
Of course, not everyone gets smarter.
The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, is ideologically firm and reiterates that the green transition is the cure for all sorrows.
Now and ever, and forever and ever.
In some ways, her rituals are similar to the magazine "Korea" of the times of Kim Il Sung - "Be more courageous to develop tactics of high-speed combat!".
That is why all problems will be solved.
Perhaps she herself believes in the tactics of high-speed combat, perhaps she has nowhere to go too much.
And so, of course, they will also be kicked out, but a little later.
But small countries have their own worries - how to be heated tomorrow?
And no less than turning all sorts of wheels.
Of course, the Green Germans, who began their struggle back in the early 1970s with a decisive opposition to nuclear energy, are still showing a consistent, Nordic character.
Just as in the middle of April 1945 in Berlin there were posters Alles kann in diesem Kriege möglich sein, nur nicht, dass wir jemals Kapitulieren - "Everything is possible in this war, except our surrender", so no events on the energy front influenced the determination of the German leaders to shut down the last three nuclear power plants in 2022.
Such an indestructible ideological firmness is curious against the background of the ancient (1978) speech of the then already Nobel Peace Prize laureate and already quite correct from the point of view of our then partners Acad.
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Sakharova "Nuclear Energy and Freedom of the West."
In this speech, broadcast by all hostile voices, the laureate noted: “The development of nuclear power is one of the necessary conditions for maintaining the economic and political independence of each country, both one that has already reached a high level of development and that is developing. Nuclear power is especially important for the countries of Western Europe. If the economies of these countries continue to depend to any significant extent on the supply of chemical fuels from the USSR and countries under its influence, the West will be under constant threat of shutting down these channels, and this will result in a humiliating political dependence. One concession in politics always entails another, and where this will lead in the end is difficult to predict. "
For more than 40 years, the threat never materialized - however, Sakharov was careful to speak only of the potential nature of such a threat.
However, he believed the development of the NPP network to be a true guarantee of European sovereignty, protecting the West from any accidents: “This is not only about comfort, not only about maintaining the so-called quality of life.
We are talking about a more cardinal issue - about economic and political independence, about preserving freedom for your children and grandchildren. "
If we assume that the academician had some reasons for this, then, of course, the stormy activity of European ecologists to destroy nuclear energy, which continues to this day, represents a consistent destruction of the economic and political independence of Europe.
Now the thoughts of the Nobel laureate have been recalled by Bulgarians, Romanians, Croats, etc., but the European hegemon - Germany - continues to insist that we will close all nuclear power plants, but we will not disgrace the environment.
The development of ideas is strange.
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