"Yellow vests": Macron admits that the fuel tax was a "mistake" vis-à-vis the "middle class"

The episode of "yellow vests" remains an indelible mark on the five-year term of Emmanuel Macron.

Measure at the origin of the 2018 movement, before the executive gave it up, the carbon tax on fuels was an

whose

the Head of State had

on

, he himself admitted in an interview in English broadcast Sunday on the American channel CBS.

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More than two years after the demonstrations marked by violence, the president claims to have learned lessons in his approach to ecological transition.

,

and

so that they can adapt to it, he says today.

, according to the head of state, but the effort must be

for the French.

"Social inequalities"

"If you go to the White House or the Elysee Palace to say: 'now you will have to adapt and pay more', I can assure you that you will increase social inequalities,"

he said. added,

 :

In the eyes of the tenant of the Élysée Palace, the ecological transition must first be supported by the States, which must both

and by investors, who must be encouraged to

and be

if they

.

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The same applies to health restrictions as ecological measures: Emmanuel Macron tries to keep the

between necessity and

, a few days before the international climate summit of April 22 and 23, initiated by the American president Joe Biden.

A perilous balancing act in which the government is also engaged, in full examination of the “climate” bill by Parliament.

With the concern of not awakening a social crisis one year before the presidential election.