Italy officially joins the European Nuclear Alliance, the initiative led by France to promote development in the atomic energy bloc, and in which until now it was only an observer. “This is a decision in line with the government's energy policy choices,” Energy Security Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin said at the alliance's new meeting on the sidelines of the EU Energy Council in Luxembourg. Italy “is following a national strategy that, in a transparent and gradual way, promotes a pragmatic re-evaluation of the role of nuclear energy as a decarbonized, safe, reliable and programmable source,” the minister explained, arguing that our government is “happy to collaborate and work actively from today, with all the countries of the Nuclear Alliance, to promote together the definition of a European framework favorable to the development of the entire nuclear energy value chain”. The alliance supporting atomic energy in Europe is an initiative promoted by Paris in March 2023, which was immediately joined by 11 states (Franca, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, France, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia) and later joined by three others (Belgium, Estonia, Sweden). These governments are calling for new nuclear power plants to be included among those that can help the European Union meet its Co2 emission reduction targets.