François d'Orcival: “When the industry goes, everything goes…”

"There is no strong economy without a strong industry."

This formula is over ten years old.

It dates from July 2012 and is from Jean-Marc Ayrault, Prime Minister of François Hollande.

She addressed herself to Louis Gallois, then Commissioner for Investment, who was asked for a report on the means of rectifying the situation.

Before answering the question put to him, he will first of all draw up the observation of a stall: the share of industry in the total added value in France had fallen from 18% in the year 2000 to 12.5 in 2011, which then places us in 15th of the 17 places in the euro zone!

The latest INSEE report (that of 2020) shows that in ten years, French industry has stopped deteriorating, since it has regained 0.8 points to stand at 13.3%, but that it is still far behind Germany and Poland, Italy, Spain or even Belgium…

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