Hungary's foreign minister sees increased role for France in new nuclear plant

Electricite de France SA

07/06/2023 12:05

BUDAPEST, June 7 (Reuters) - France will likely take
over the role of Siemens in delivering the control system for
Hungary's new nuclear reactors at its Paks plant, Hungarian
Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in a Facebook video on
Wednesday after talks in Paris.
    German group Siemens Energy together with France's Framatome
has a contract for delivering the control equipment for the new
plant to be built by Russia's Rosatom, but Szijjarto said
Germany was blocking the export licence for Siemens, and so "the
French will most probably take over" the delivery.

 (Reporting by Krisztina Than and Boldizsar Gyori
Editing by Jason Hovet)
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