The French government has canceled plans for a new terminal in Paris

The French government has canceled plans to build a huge new terminal at Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) in Paris. The BBC news portal informs about it. They cited the coronavirus pandemic as well as changing environmental priorities as reasons for this move. France has radically changed its transport priorities, currently demanding plans for electric or hydrogen-powered aircraft to build airports. Ecology Minister Barbara Pompili told Le Monde that the project was "obsolete". "We will always need aircraft, but we need to move towards more sensible modes of aviation and achieve a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in this sector," she said. The leader of the French Green Party, Julien Bayou, called it a "great victory for environmentalists" over the "idiot project". Charles de Gaulle Airport, which opened in 1974, is the second busiest in Europe, behind London's Heathrow. In 2019, more than 76 million passengers passed through it. The fourth terminal would allow the airport to accommodate an additional approximately 40 million passengers a year.