The fear over fuel shortage across the country has upsurged as all the major refineries continue to witness strikes.
“29.4 percent of the service stations in the country have encountered difficulties with at least one product on Monday, as compared to 19 percent on October”, mentioned Ministry for Energy transition to Xinhua news Agency.
Prime MInister Elisabeth Borne assembled an emergency meeting on Monday Evening.
As per French Media reports, the government will impose a ban on the filling of fuel jerry cans throughout the country.
Due to the strike, there has been a decrease in fuel deliveries, sparking fears and introducing long waiting hours.
This has also affected School transportation like School buses, etc.
Along with the strikes, fuel prices have skyrocketed in the past week.
In the process of negating the fuel shortage, the French government released large volumes of fuel from its strategic reserves and strengthened its fuel imports from Belgium.
The agreement to initiate negotiations by TotalEnergies and the CGT turned out to be inconclusive in the past weekend.
The high inflation in France has caused the strikers to demand a raise in salary as compensation.
