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Emmanuel Macron details this Tuesday the priority sectors of "France 2030", including semiconductors suffering from major shortages at the global level, electric batteries, artificial intelligence, low-carbon aircraft or agriculture.
With, for each of them, the objective of supporting the ecological transition.
The intervention of the Head of State will give him the opportunity to try to put the economy back at the heart of the campaign against certain candidates who accuse him of accelerating "the downgrading" or "the decline" of France.
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10:30 am. Emmanuel Macron begins his speech.
“The planet is facing historic challenges. The first obviously being the climatic and environmental challenge, ie the problem of climatic disturbances and the reduction of biodiversity ”, begins the Head of State. "It is a profound challenge which obviously changes our means of production, of producing energy first, of making industry, of moving around, of consuming, of feeding us," he continues.
9:50 a.m. The milestones for a future campaign.
Six months from the presidential deadline, this presentation is of course not without political ulterior motives. As a first milestone, in view of the project that Emmanuel Macron will defend when he is a candidate. "He wants to present himself as a visionary president, builder and protector", supports with the Parisian a minister for whom this ambitious plan has no other purpose "than to lay the foundations of his future presidential program". To read our decryption on the subject.
9.45 a.m. Around 30 billion euros, according to estimates, over five years.
To hatch these “French and European” champions, “France 2030” aims to deploy quickly with the release of around 30 billion euros, according to estimates, over five years. So that "in 2030 there are already projects emerging from the ground," according to the president's entourage. A first part of this envelope will be incorporated, by amendment, into the draft budget for 2022, currently under discussion in Parliament.
9.40 a.m.
Nuclear power promises to be one of the strong topics for 2022.
This is nuclear power on the way to becoming one of the strong themes of the presidential election.
Not a day goes by without a potential candidate taking strong positions in favor or against the use of the atom.
It is therefore no coincidence that this Tuesday, six months before the supreme election, Emmanuel Macron is preparing to unveil his nuclear projects.
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9:30 am.
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