"
The restart is powerful,
" assured Bruno Le Maire this morning on
France Inter.
While the Minister of the Economy considered that "
the crisis was passing behind us
", he also gave a date to traders for the start of the summer sales period: June 30.
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“A
lot of small businesses feel that the sales should be delayed, but we did it last year (mid-July) and it wasn't (a success),
” he said.
I propose that the date of the sales be postponed to June 30.
"
Optimism
The minister was rather optimistic about the current state of the economy in the country. "
The companies have all been mothballed (for over a year) but are ready to restart
"
,
he explained. "
There was a shock to the real economy, of a gravity that has had no equivalent in recent history
," he conceded.
But there is no equivalent (either on the response to the crisis), with the solidarity fund, loans guaranteed by the state, exemptions from charges ...
"Bruno Le Maire added that"
for the first time in European history, we made the decision to spend tens of billions of euros to protect the economy
”
.
If he estimated that the crisis was in the process of ending, Bruno Le Maire added that he refused for the moment to revise the growth above 5% for 2021 while waiting to see if the epidemic could leave in the fall.
"
I call on everyone to be vaccinated,
" he said.
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Bruno Le Maire then assured that France was not heading towards a “
wall of bankruptcy
”, but he named two major traps ahead for the country's economy. First, the recruitment difficulties. "
If growth returns, it must benefit all French people without exception,
" he insisted. Another obstacle to the recovery: the price of raw materials, with a recovery all over the world which has greatly boosted demand, especially in China.
