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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called for the European Union to be more self-sufficient in energy production in a speech on Friday in Prague. “When we speak about our energy, we have to produce our own energy, more renewables, more nuclear, more efficiency,” she told a security conference in the Czech capital. Nuclear energy in the EU however is hotly disputed with France pushing for the technology to get more public investment, and be a bigger part of the bloc’s energy system, against stiff opposition from Germany. As commission president, the German conservative politicia…

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