DECRYPTION – At the opening of the Medef summer school, Elisabeth Borne will ask entrepreneurs to speed up on transition topics.
And here we go for two days of lively debates! For the fourth consecutive year, the Mouvement des entreprises de France (Medef) is marking the start of the new school year for French bosses, and that of the economy, by holding its traditional summer school at the Longchamp racecourse, renamed REF, for “Meeting des entrepreneurs de France”, since 2019. And it is an understatement to say that the exchanges, which will bring together no less than 150 speakers (including 15 ministers, 4 foreign heads of state or government, around thirty bosses, etc.) will have this year a particular color.
How far, in fact, the optimism that prevailed in August 2020 after the shock of the first confinement of the economy due to a pandemic. Also forgotten was the euphoria that reigned a year later when growth soared against a backdrop of a shortage of skills and, already, of materials from China… Since then, inflation has soared (the rise in prices reached 6.1% over one year in France at the end of July, 8.9% in the…