{"id":4340,"date":"2026-04-03T00:42:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/french-industry-hit-hard-by-the-energy-crisis-caused-by-middle-east-war\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T00:42:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:42:05","slug":"french-industry-hit-hard-by-the-energy-crisis-caused-by-middle-east-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/french-industry-hit-hard-by-the-energy-crisis-caused-by-middle-east-war\/","title":{"rendered":"French industry hit hard by the energy crisis caused by Middle East war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\">  <\/picture> <noscript>  <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">An employee at a road transport company fills up a truck at a depot in Bignay, western France, on March 31, 2026.  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">PHILIPPE LOPEZ \/ AFP<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">Yet another crisis has struck French industry. After the catastrophes triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, followed by the fallout from Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and then the political instability caused by the Assembl\u00e9e Nationale&#8217;s dissolution in 2024, France&#8217;s industrial sector now faces the repercussions of the Middle East war. Soaring oil and gas prices, difficulties sourcing certain raw&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/international\/article\/2026\/04\/03\/french-industry-hit-hard-by-the-energy-crisis-caused-by-middle-east-war_6752066_4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An employee at a road transport company fills up a truck at a depot in Bignay, western France, on March 31, 2026. PHILIPPE LOPEZ \/ AFP Yet another crisis has struck French industry. After the catastrophes triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, followed by the fallout from Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,67],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-finance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francechrono.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}