How We Happened to Sell Off Our Electricity
James Meek, 13 September 2012
“... supply as a part of la patrie that had somehow been taken over by outside forces. ‘For us,’ Denis Cohen, the communist head of the CGT until 2003, told me, ‘energy is like culture; it’s not a private good.’ It was puzzling. From this side of the English Channel, it had seemed clear enough: although some shares in EDF have been sold, and the ... ”