28 Chapter 28 Priority 3 Clean and Competitive Energy

The battlefield where everything is decided. BASF's energy surcharge: €3.2bn in 2022 (84% in Europe) while investing €10bn in China. Since the Antwerp Declaration: 101 sites closed, 75,000 jobs lost (assessed 11 February 2026). Belgium repealed its nuclear phase-out on 15 May 2025 (102 votes to 8); Euratom targets 109 GW by 2050. The grid: 500 GW awaiting connection, storage 50 GWh against 780 needed. This video was produced with AI (Google NotebookLM), bounded to the figures of the book chapter, in line with EU AI Act art. 50. From « Europa Resurgam » by François Bellot & Christophe Boeraeve.