Both governments have absolutely retarded energy policies. France has been slowly winding down its aging fleet of reactors for some time now, and trying to replace them with renewables. There's a certain logic to it if you're not forward-thinking. Nuclear plants are huge investments, and renewables are comparably cheap and fast to get up and running. The trade off is, of course, that they aren't reliable and don't fucking work.

The Germans increased their carbon footprint a few years ago because their renewables were faultering and they had to bring coal plants back online to make up the difference.