One more.
After the end of the manufacture of the Smart in Lorraine, the restructuring at Nokia or Renault, the confirmation by Bridgestone of the closure of the Béthune plant is likely to reinforce this terrible feeling of powerlessness, which, for twenty years , prevails in France: the state would prove incapable of halting industrial decline.
With each crisis, the voluntarist speeches of political leaders multiply;
but more than in turn, they come up against economic and legal realities.
And this hiatus feeds disillusion and mistrust of public opinion.
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The government will
"discuss head to head"
with the leaders of Bridgestone to
"convince them to invest"
, declared Jean Castex at the end of September.
The Japanese giant has camped on its positions.
What was foregone.
We can be sure that a global group the size of Bridgestone, faced with competition from Chinese tires, had already studied at length the pros and cons of shutting down
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