The president of Medef denounced on Saturday a "
relentlessness against businesses
" after the government's decision to reconfine 16 departments, including those of Ile-de-France, also worrying about a return of "
bureaucratic madness
".
"
It is difficult to understand this relentlessness on businesses when a lot of efforts have been made in terms of health,
" said Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux on Europe 1 about the decision to close so-called non-essential businesses. from Saturday, to fight the rebound of the Covid-19 epidemic.
The head of Medef criticizes the government in particular of incriminating businesses as being places of contamination: "
it comes far behind families, businesses, relatives
", he said, while conceding that there was "
progress to be made at the time of restoration
".
Regarding the closing criteria, "
the bureaucratic madness will be put back in place as in November,
" he said, adding that he did not know whether DIY or electronics stores with a surface area greater than 10,000 m2 would remain open. or not.
"
The principle of partial confinement of businesses does not work,
" he said, repeating that "
it is not in the shops that we are contaminated
".
On the macroeconomic level, he said he was "
skeptical
" of the government's forecast of a 0.2 point drop in GDP due to these new measures.
"
I think it will be stronger than that,
" he said, while 90,000 businesses will have to lower the curtain.
"
The key is vaccination,
" he said, citing the example of Great Britain, where 25 million people have been vaccinated and has been able to set up a "
timetable for reopening restaurants, from early May.
"
