Emmanuel Macron continues his media offensive. After a lengthy interview with Challenges last week, then with L'Opinion on Monday, the President of the Republic granted, in the aftermath, an interview to the 20h of TF1. While the head of state received Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Elysee Palace on Sunday evening, he took advantage of his televised intervention to announce that the France would allow the training of Ukrainian pilots on his soil. While providing "new ammunition" to Kiev. On the sidelines of the international Choose France summit held Monday at the Palace of Versailles, Emmanuel Macron also welcomed the 13 billion euros invested by foreign companies, creating jobs in France. If the president wants a significant reduction in taxation for households by the end of the five-year term, he also returned to the inflationary and social contexts of recent months.
France opens door to Ukrainian pilot training
"We have decided to build with the Ukrainians in the east of the country elements to form their troops, their battalions who will be in charge of leading the counter-offensive and resisting and repairing vehicles, guns," revealed the president on TF1. Emmanuel Macron also opened "the door to train pilots" Ukrainian. The latter could also follow a training in France. And this, possibly on French planes; even if the head of state remained evasive on this subject.
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"Training can start now," he said, assuring that this could be done with "European countries that are ready for it". "I believe that discussions are ongoing with the Americans," he said. Regarding the delivery of fighter jets, the president said he did not "talk about planes" but about "missiles and training". "For now, we are starting training. This is the agreement that several Europeans have made," he concluded.
'New ammunition' soon to be sent to Ukraine
The day after the reception of Volodymyr Zelensky at the Elysee, Emmanuel Macron recalled the strategy of the France: "Help Ukraine to resist, to organize, at the time it chooses, a counter-offensive to be able to bring everyone back to the negotiating table and under conditions it has chosen, to build a lasting peace for it."
If Emmanuel Macron ensures that the France has already delivered "a lot", including Caesar guns, ammunition, armored vehicles, he announces that "new ammunition" will be sent to Ukraine. "We are not waging war against Russia, we are helping Ukraine to resist the Russian assailant. This means that we do not deliver weapons that would allow us to reach Russian soil or attack Russia. Nor do we weaken the France's ability to defend itself," he said. The French president, however, kicked the can down the road on the nature of the new weapons delivered to Ukraine, saying only that the France would send "other equipment, other ammunition, other missiles that have a range that allows Ukraine to resist."
A future reduction of 2 billion euros in taxes "for households" by 2027?
Emmanuel Macron has accentuated his message towards the middle classes. On Monday evening, the President of the Republic announced "concentrate" 2 billion in "tax cuts for households by 2027". A tax relief planned "in our budgetary trajectory," says the head of state.
Regarding the means to achieve this in the coming years, Emmanuel Macron said "to have asked the government to make proposals for them to focus on the middle classes." If Emmanuel Macron reserves the right to give a precise timetable, he suggests that this boost could be spread over time, "when the budgetary trajectory allows it in this five-year period.
»Macron welcomes the 13 billion euros invested in France, thanks to Choose France
On the sidelines of the traditional international summit "Choose France" held on Monday at the Palace of Versailles, Emmanuel Macron boasted of having attracted, this year, "a record number of foreign investments": "13 billion euros invested, more than 8,000 jobs on the ground. Three-quarters of these investments and jobs are outside Paris." While the social context remains quite tense and eruptive in France, despite the promulgation of the pension reform a month ago, the President of the Republic drives the nail and confirms his line: "Even (when) there are disputes, we do not change, we do not head to tail, we do not say all at once we will massively increase taxes, We stop the reforms."
If the head of state acknowledges that the strikes of recent months have damaged the image of the France with foreign investors, Emmanuel Macron reminded them that "there is an intolerable violence. (and that) There are demonstrations," which "take place peacefully." "We would like to generalize things in the country, but I look at our private companies, there have been very few strikes. There was a strike in part of the public sector," adds Emmanuel Macron.
Anti-inflation shield extended 'if necessary'
Flagship measure of the government device in the fight against the rise in food prices, the anti-inflation shield could be "extended, if necessary," announced Emmanuel Macron. Who continues to address the middle classes who are hit hard when filling their shopping cart. "We will reopen negotiations where necessary," said the head of state, who plans to "put pressure on large distribution groups when we realize that they play a little on the margins."
If the president targets distributors who take advantage of the inflationary context, he does not want to "designate an enemy" because "everyone is still rather responsible." Emmanuel Macron takes the opportunity to launch an appeal to them: "Help us lower prices for our compatriots. Look at the products you use to make what you sell in supermarkets have dropped a lot. (...) You have passed your increases, you may be asked to pass the decreases faster.
»"Working longer means producing more wealth": Macron "assumes" pension reform
The pension bill may have been promulgated in mid-April, but the government is trying to turn the page. Again asked about the merits of raising the legal retirement age from 62 to 64, Emmanuel Macron defended a reform "necessary because it creates more wealth." "Compared to those who promise mountains and wonders or to return to retirement at 60, there is no strong country, if it does not create its own wealth," says the president, according to whom "working longer is producing more wealth." So I accept this reform.
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