On coming out of confinement last spring, Emmanuel Macron had promised the relocation of strategic industries.
He had to respond to the amazement of the French discovering that their country no longer knew how to produce the most basic medical equipment.
According to an Odoxa poll in April, 92% of the population was enthusiastic about industrial relocations, promises of a return of economic sovereignty but also of revitalization of abandoned territories.
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Faced with these grand declarations, economists had marked a certain skepticism: while industrial production chains were shattered all over the world, especially in countries with very low production costs, this dream of repatriation seemed quite utopian.
The inability of Donald Trump, despite all his injunctions, to revive on American soil the industry that disappeared during his mandate, had also demonstrated the limits of the exercise.
The executive is of course aware of this.
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