"We must give an optimistic signal to companies, a signal to show them that they must start again." The Medef will hold its meeting of entrepreneurs from France (REF) back to school on Thursday, August 27 at the Longchamp racecourse. Transformed this year into the Renaissance of French companies, the event will take place "in the open air and with the optimism specific to entrepreneurs" , the employers' organization said.
The Medef is delighted with the cast of former prime ministers that it will include in its program. If the coming of Jean Castex to introduce the day has yet to be confirmed, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Manuel Valls and the former President of the Italian Council Enrico Letta have already indicated that they will be present.
Various profiles
“Remember on March 17, France almost froze…” , Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux said at the opening. The round tables will reflect on all “the lines that have changed” since, whether it is the way of working, communicating, moving. They will also address "the major questions around economic sovereignty, the urgency of ecological transition and the preservation of biodiversity, and new modes of consumption" .
Profiles as varied as the MEP Yannick Jadot, the epidemiologist Arnaud Fontanet, the boss of Veolia, Antoine Frérot, the philosopher Julia de Funès, the Minister of Labor Élisabeth Borne, the boss of Sanofi, Paul will follow on the main stage. Hudson, or the economist Édouard Tétreau. At the end of the day, business leaders (Frédéric Oudéa for Société Générale, Alexandre Bompard for Carrefour, Bertrand Camus for Suez, etc.) will testify about how they experienced this crisis and what they learned from it.