Accelerate, accelerate, accelerate: the watchword is clear. During a meeting at the Élysée Palace on Thursday, Emmanuel Macron repeated it on Thursday, before unveiling new measures to give a boost to the reindustrialization of France, "mother of battles" in his eyes. In front of industrial players, business leaders, elected officials, representatives of associations and several ministers, including Bruno Le Maire, Agnès Pannier-Runacher or Roland Lescure, the President of the Republic defended his record in this area, and hammered his desire to go further.
The stakes are high: if the tenant of the Élysée has been delighted with the French successes, and in particular the increased attractiveness of France vis-à-vis foreign investors, nothing is won for all that. In its annual report, published a few days before the Choose France event, scheduled for Monday at the Palace of Versailles, EY has noted warning signals, which worry decision-makers wishing to settle in France. Emmanuel Macron knows it: efforts remain to be made. It was therefore necessary to accelerate. Here is what to remember from the speech of the President of the Republic:
Deindustrialization, the result of an "almost ideological choice"
»The President of the Republic first regretted a deindustrialization that "has sometimes been allowed to happen", due to an "almost ideological choice". The result of these forty years during which "France has become more deindustrialized than other countries in Europe" has "created costly dependencies", especially during the health crisis. Emmanuel Macron also pointed to the massive industrial development of the United States and China. "We are not meant to become the consumers of American industry," he said, adding that "this is an issue of sovereignty.
€700 million to improve training for "jobs of the future"
The industrialization dynamic that the President of the Republic wishes to accelerate will require the creation of many industrial jobs. For these positions to be filled, Emmanuel Macron announced that 700 million euros will be invested to improve training for the professions of the future. "Hundreds of thousands of jobs will appear on the occasion of reindustrialization," he said.
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