The Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire wanted this Tuesday that the factories welcome more visits from pupils and students in order to help young people to
“build an industrial imagination”
after 40 years of deindustrialization.
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"We must encourage young people to move towards trades in Industry"
which lacks arms, because
"the image of the industry is out of step with reality"
said the Minister, suggesting to an audience of industrialists invited to Bercy
"to invite children to go to factories" to "find out just what it is, how it works and let them have another idea"
.
“We take elementary and middle school children to visit places of memory, visit museums, heritage sites, so much the better, it is essential to transmit our memories, but our memory is also industrial, and if industry does part of our culture, why shouldn't we invite our children from middle school, from elementary school? "
he said.
Recreating an
"industrial will"
According to him,
"the only way to remedy"
the deindustrialisation that the political and economic class has allowed to happen in France for 40 years is to
"recreate an industrial will".
"Relocation is essential and vital for employment, but also for the fight against extremes, to restore confidence"
added the Minister.
Because
"where a factory closes, there is a permanence of the National Front which opens, it is a political reality"
added Mr. Le Maire, who was speaking at the end of a conference on the relocation of essential activities. on the national territory, organized by Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Secretary of State to the Minister of the Economy.
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On deindustrialisation, the person in charge made his mea-culpa: "We are collectively responsible for deindustrialisation" he said,
"the politicians, the heads of companies, the industrial sectors, all those who invented the famous concept of
"fabless industries"
(companies without factories, dependent on subcontracting in low-cost countries, NDR), all those who have covered with a scientific varnish what was a political defeat ".
"France has abandoned its industry and today we are still paying the economic price, the financial price, the price in terms of jobs and the political price,"
he said.
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