Guillaume Tabard: "Covid, recovery plan: the bets of Jean Castex"

To theoretical debates, he prefers precision in execution. At Matignon, Jean Castex has chosen not to play the flamboyant nor the “matamores” , to use one of the words he likes. Measures to avoid a resumption of the Covid, economic recovery plan: after its running-in period in the form of the summer Tour de France, here it is expected on concrete. Determined to demonstrate its know-how. And its method based on two pillars: pragmatism and concrete.

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Pragmatism, this is what led him to decide with Emmanuel Macron, during the last weekend, to postpone the presentation of the recovery plan for one week - it will take place next Wednesday. God knows that these 100 billion were supposed to strike the spirits in this return! But precisely, "to act is to adapt to circumstances" , confides Castex for whom the concerns raised by the rise in the number of Covid cases and their impact on the back-to-school climate would not have allowed attention.

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