Paris residents express concerns over possibility of restarting coal-fired power plants amid energy crisis

STORY: Paris residents express concerns over possibility of restarting coal-fired power plants amid energy crisis DATELINE: Sept. 4, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:58 LOCATION: Paris CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: various of street view in ParisSOUNDBITE 1 (French): SYLVETTE, Paris residentvarious of pylonsSOUNDBITE 2 (French): IDHIR, Paris residentSOUNDBITE 3 (French): CHRISTOPHE, Paris residentSOUNDBITE 4 (French): LOUIS, Paris residentSOUNDBITE 5 (French): RAYMONDE, Paris resident STORYLINE: Facing power supply insecurity, some European countries have decided to reopen coal-fired power plants or to take measures to support coal power. Residents in Paris have expressed their concerns over decisions of going back to the traditional energy source. SOUNDBITE 1 (French): SYLVETTE, Paris resident "So if France restarts the coal-fired power plants, it's true that it risks being a step backwards. It's not a big step forward but rather a step backwards, before we have other solutions to allow us to continue to live on the l

U.S. chips bill purely protectionist law : French economist

STORY: U.S. chips bill purely protectionist law : French economist DATELINE: Aug. 22, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:12 LOCATION: Paris CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY/POLITICS SHOTLIST: various of ParisSOUNDBITE (French): JEAN-MARC DANIEL, French economist STORYLINE: A Paris-based French economist has said that the Chips and Science Act passed by the U.S. Congress is a purely protectionist law. Jean-Marc Daniel, an economist, professor and editor of the magazine Societal said in a recent interview with Xinhua that historically all countries that turned to protectionism have been losers. SOUNDBITE (French): JEAN-MARC DANIEL, French economist "I do think that this law is a purely protectionist law. In a way, the fact of depending on the Asians, and particularly the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans, for the future of their economy and their industry is humiliating. So they are ready to make an effort. What they don't see is that it's not a question of saying but of doing and acting. And once you get down to the concrete, at the m