Abstract
The close relationship between France and Germany on the energy plan began after World War II with the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). It was an international organization which purpose was to unify European countries after the war.
Thereby the Franco-German relationship has been the engine of the European project driven by various official meetings, many consultations, common institutions and others diplomatic actions. But this relationship depends heavily on close links at the very top between the different leaders. We all remember the famous couples such as de Gaulle and Adenauer, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Helmut Schmidt, François Mitterrand and Helmut Khol, Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroëder and finally Nicolas Sarkozy and Chancellor Angela Merkel.1
Furthermore, after the 1973's oil shock, France decided to launch an important nuclear power plant building program. Nuclear energy would not change oil dependency but would offer other alternative energies which will influence the world. Nevertheless since the years 2000 the aspect of the energetic sector is changing with the advent of the renewables energies and consideration about the impact of our lifestyle in the context of sustainable development. In 2010, Germany decided to grant these a better place and to promote energetic efficiency. This choice has been accelerated by the disaster of Fukushima in 2011 with the decision to renounce progressively to nuclear energy.2 Angela Merkel calls this U-turn the “Energiewende'' known as the energy transition in English. The Fukushima disaster changes the world way's mind concerning nuclear energy. It has revived the debate over the use of nuclear power in many countries of the Union.
