France France abandons plan for €580m airport and orders squatters off site Government ends decades of debate by opting instead to expand an existing airport in Nantes A resident walks near a farm in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, near Nantes. Announcing the end of the 50-year on-off plan to develop the 1,650 hectare site, Philippe said the land would remain for agricultural use. Philippe Grosvalet, president of the departmental authority, said Macron had made a “very bad decision”. In politics when you make a bad decision, there are only bad consequences and this is a very bad result for our area and especially for its economic development and businesses,” Grosvalet said. This announcement is a considerable defeat for public decision and poses serious questions of the State’s ability to decide.

Source: The Guardian January 17, 2018 13:39 UTC