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Gérard Longuet: “With one medium-sized company per canton, our country would change its face”

2022-01-25T18:51:21.431Z


TRIBUNE - France suffers less from a lack of entrepreneurs in general than from a shortage of industrialists in particular, explains the former minister.


Gérard Longuet is former president of the lr group in the senate.

he is currently a senator for the meuse.

France needs manufacturers.

Some exist, others could become so.

Manufacturers will only produce in France if national production is profitable.

Better than anyone, they know the relative costs of each country.

Political power has only one mission, to ensure that the cost chain is attractive in France.

I saw in Lorraine, the day after the Aubry laws establishing the 35-hour working week, the flow of foreign investment ceased to supply jobs to the region that I chaired at the time.

It would also be a question of bringing out new industrialists.

Strengthen a social class that already exists, but too few in France.

Distribution, services, digital, luxury have created a new class of entrepreneurs.

The industry, not really.

The really big names in the industry have been the same for over half a century at least.

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Source: lefigaro

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