In France,
“we don't have oil, but we have ideas”,
proclaimed the slogan of the 1970s. Today we pretend that the surge in energy prices is soluble in public aid.
“
The inflation allowance
, the energy check, what we have done with EDF, what we are doing to cap gas prices: the bill for all of these measures is 15 billion euros already committed by the state to protect the French”,
recalled last week Bruno Le Maire, during one of his daily radio and television interviews. The Minister of Economy and Finance
“does not close any doors”
he says. New aid in perspective?
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