They demand compensation for the failure of the US group to comply with the 2014 agreement to buy Alstom's energy business. The city of Belfort, the agglomeration of Greater Belfort and the Department of Territoire de Belfort ask 12 million euros to the state, said Tuesday, October 15 the municipality. These communities will file, this week, an administrative appeal to the Ministry of Economy to demand compensation for General Electric's (GE) non-compliance with the agreement signed in 2014 on the purchase of Alstom's energy business, said the mayor of Belfort, Damien Meslot (The Republicans), during a press conference. Of the requested amount, 8.27 million euros are tax losses and 3.7 million euros of road refurbishment carried out for the transport of huge gas turbines. D...

Ursula von der Leyen, the new president of the European Commission, must redefine the new priorities of the European energy policy by harmonizing the security and sustainability of supplies, explain, in a tribune to the "World", researchers Aurélie and Thierry Bros. The XXI th  century began there nearly two decades, yet the European energy policy remains steeped in outdated concepts dating back to the last century. It will have been a perpetual update of the so-called inseparable trio: security, competition and sustainability. In other words, to ensure the security of supplies and infrastructures that allow the transport, harmonize and liberalize the European internal energy market, to green as much as possible our energy mix. Everything seems to have been designed so that every E...

For the fourth edition of the "The World Cities" Awards, five projects worldwide were awarded on Friday, June 28, in the areas of urban planning, energy, housing, mobility and citizen participation. On June 28th, Le Monde presented the Le Monde Cities prize for urban innovation at Ground Control in Paris . One hundred and eleven projects were submitted to the jury by a selection committee made up of 28 personalities from around the world, experts in urban mutations: elected officials, researchers, company or foundation managers, architects, urban planners ... Composed of the journalists of the World  who follow daily the fields covered by these awards, the jury, chaired by Jérome Fenoglio, director of the World, rewarded innovations developed at the initiative of municipalities, ...