Germany is really taking the lead here by reducing the number of people that it will give parental support to, so that families earning more than 150k have less incentive or help to reproduce.

Hasn’t France gone back to being a net exporter since winter 2022?

I thought that if it came to an emergency they could keep the reactors running, only the exhaust water would be too hot and river wildlife would die around the vents.

On a longer-term basis they could switch to cooling towers that use evaporative cooling. Then they don’t have the rivers too hot problem.