British and French resistance to "nuclear package"

The European commission is on a collision course with Great Britain and France over its nuclear strategy. Loyola de Palacio, the energy commissioner, wants to propose at the beginning of November, a pooling of nuclear safety standards. The goal is to be able to control the candidate country nuclear power plants after they enter the European Union.

But the only way not to discriminate against new member states, would be to check the reactors in all member states. Austria is strongly f...