If Emmanuel Macron praises his policy of reindustrialization, a file on which he insisted this week with the presentation of the main axes of the "green industry" bill and the announcement of several large industrial investments in Dunkirk (North), it is not unanimous. Guest of the Grand Rendez-vous Europe 1 /CNEWS / Les Échos this Sunday, the former big boss Loïk Le Floch-Prigent had harsh words for the head of state. "He is above ground, he does not know the industry," said the former leader of Elf Aquitaine, Gaz de France or SNCF.
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He does not know how the industry is developing. The industry doesn't grow like that. It does not develop with money, with the help of subsidies, with intelligent people who say: do this or do that," he explained, pointing more broadly to "a profound misunderstanding of politics of what industry is". "The industry is not about putting money anyhow, anywhere, it's not about saying 'this is green, this is not green'," he said.
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Green Industry Bill
On Thursday, Emmanuel Macron announced a series of measures to accelerate the reindustrialization of the France, which will be included in the "green industry" bill, presented to the Council of Ministers next Tuesday. Among them, an investment of 700 million euros to improve training in "trades of the future", the acceleration of the time to obtain authorizations for an industrial project, or an investment of one billion euros to "release available industrial land".
In the Grand Rendez-vous Europe 1/CNEWS/Les Échos, Loïk Le Floch-Prigent has developed his own vision of the industry, without proposing any real concrete ways of reindustrialization. "The industry is at some point people who want to do something and who can or cannot," he said. First of all, we must try not to prevent, today people who want to do things are prevented by the administrations, the activists of the regional directorates of the environment, by the texts, the standards, by the fact that they have controls in all directions. " "The course, in the industrial field, I would like to know it," he further pushed to the address of the policy of the head of state.