political groups: ALDE, ECR, ENF, EFDD, GUE-NGL;

-Notably, the former Spitzenkandidat for the Greens, Ska Keller (freshly elected co-chair of her group), voted in favour of the secret ballot (as did most of the German Greens, such as Sven Giegold, Jan Albrecht or Julia Reda). Also the Austrian Greens (including Ulrike Lunacek) voted for keeping this vote secret. Their defections from the line of the Greens group were just enough to make the difference: if they had voted in favour, the required majority of 376 votes would have been reached and the public would have seen in 2019 who votes in favor and against of the new Commission President;

– In S&D, the supporters of the secret ballot were the Germans and the Swedish (with the exception of Soraya Post).SA a deal that at the time paid double the market power price for nuclear energy for decades. By helping Hitachi shoulder construction risks before the plant starts producing, the government could reduce the final cost of the plant to taxpayers.

“The government will be considering direct investment alongside Hitachi and the Japanese government agencies as well as other parties,” Clark told Parliament in London on Monday.

For Britain, a move toward public involvement in the project would reverse some of the work to privatize the energy industry started decades ago by Margaret Thatcher. The French government and CGN are involved in the Hinkley project, but the U.K. was careful to stay out of that project after years of effort to reduce public involvement in energy.

In recent years, the U.K.