Guest of RTL this Tuesday morning, the Minister of the Economy and Finance Bruno le Maire promised to support fragile companies that have taken out State Guaranteed Loans with a first repayment scheduled for April.
"There are today a few thousand very small businesses, between 25 and 30,000 businesses of artisans, restorers, building who say they will not be able to repay the spring deadline",
confirmed The Minister.
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“We will provide them with a tailor-made solution. They have to go to credit mediation and ask for one of the two solutions we are proposing. That is to say a staggering of their EMP which could be spread out up to ten years, whereas normally one cannot go beyond six years. The other possibility is to start repaying not next spring but six months later at the end of 2022 ",
detailed Bruno le Maire, defending an initiative"
validated by the European Commission, the governor. of the Banque de France and the French Banking Federation
”
.
In the context of the persistence of health restrictions that weigh on certain sectors such as events or hotels and restaurants, the Minister of the Economy and Finance assured that the government was maintaining support measures on a case-by-case basis in a targeted manner. .
In particular, he said he was
"open"
to exemptions from charges for companies whose activity still suffers from the health context.
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On Monday, Bruno the Mayor and the Minister of Labor Élisabeth Borne had received the representatives of these companies by promising them other aid.
Partial activity will thus be reimbursed at 100% with no remaining charges for companies that lose 65% of their turnover (compared to 80% previously) and their fixed costs will be covered by the State when their activity drops by 50%. (compared to 65% previously).
