The president announced Thursday that all VSEs (companies with fewer than 10 employees) could renegotiate their contracts with electricity suppliers, received Friday at Bercy to discuss it.
“The State is not intended to bear all the additional costs“Linked to the increase in energy prices, government spokesman Olivier Véran said on Friday, after the announcement this week of aid for bakers and restaurateurs and then for all artisans. “If we did, we would maintain this loop which is not virtuous in terms of rising energy costs and that would maintain inflation.“Assured the minister when asked on RMC-BFMTV about the growing list of sectors claiming aid.
“It is a list that is not infinite“, he decided. “If the State said we pay all the additional costs, that means that the additional costs will increase“, he insisted, explaining that”we are not in whatever the cost, we are in the right help at the right time for those who need it“. Olivier Véran recalled that President Emmanuel Macron had asked the government, during his wishes on Wednesday in the Council of Ministers, to “not to think the average but to put (oneself) at human height“. “We cannot think of the problems of the French by putting ourselves in the costume of minister or head of administration, we must think of the problems of the French by putting ourselves in the place of the French“, he paraphrased.
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The president announced Thursday that all VSEs (companies with fewer than 10 employees) could renegotiate their contracts with electricity suppliers, received Friday at Bercy to discuss it. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne also announced on Tuesday that bakers could spread the payment of their taxes and contributions to free up cash.
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