Same format, same method, same guests seated in a square. There was even a short video projected at the start of the session. Eighteen months after the launch with great fanfare of the France 2030 plan by Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée to project the French economy towards the end of the decade, with more than 30 billion euros mobilized, Bruno Le Maire presented his own tracks on the matter, Monday, April 3, in Bercy, in front of an audience of some two hundred business leaders, elected officials and representatives of civil society, in order to build a future bill on “green industry”.
Convinced of the deleterious effects of deindustrialization on the country, Bruno Le Maire considers it a “ french shipwreck “. ” No other Western nation has experienced such a wave of industrial relocation,” he lamented Monday, recalling that the share of industry in GDP has been halved in France since 1973, to fall to 11%, while it has remained stable in Germany and Italy.
” We have destroyed 2.5 million industrial jobs, we have closed thousands of factories, we have divorced France from trains, forges, rockets, automobiles, household appliances, textiles and innovation, production and science. And we were almost proud of it, because we thought we had invented the concept of the company without factories”, he lambasted. A “ hazy concept from the French economic and political elites “That the former elected Les Républicains (LR) makes partly responsible for the rise of the far right. “ If today we have a National Rally that is doing so well, it is because our compatriots are aware of this abandonment “, he assured.
“Subject of national interest”
A reindustrialization that the Minister of the Economy wants “green”. To achieve this, the Minister hopes to encourage both the decarbonization of industry and the production in France of the tools to implement it – batteries, hydrogen, solar panels, wind turbine blades, heat pumps… To this end, it charged at the start of he year of elected officials, business leaders and personalities from the voluntary sector – under the leadership of Renaissance MP Guillaume Kasbarian – to make proposals to him around five projects: taxation, rehabilitation of industrial wastelands, production in France, financing and training. The thirty avenues discussed on Monday will be submitted for public consultation until the end of April, with the aim of presenting a bill on “green industry” in the Council of Ministers in May, and an adoption of the text in the summer. In the meantime, Bruno Le Maire also intends to receive opposition elected officials to build a majority on this “subject of national interest”.
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