Moreover, Sarkozy’s discussions with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown during his two-day state visit to London in March prominently featured a deal to use France’s considerable nuclear expertise to build a new generation of nuclear power stations in Britain – another source of discord with Germany. Whereas Sarkozy views nuclear power as a promising source of “renewable” energy, Germany remains adamantly opposed to it – a policy that Chancellor Angela Merkel placed at the top of her agenda during Germany’s EU presidency in 2007.