Officially, Bruno Le Maire will join his offices in Bercy on August 23. Thursday 19, however, he had to go to Bayonne and Biarritz, a stone’s throw from his holiday home in the Basque Country, to visit an industrial SME. and meet local economic players. “It’s a trip to evoke the recovery, not focused on hotel-restaurants”, specifies the office of the Minister of the Economy, before recalling that discussions with professional organizations to assess the difficulties related to the health pass are scheduled for August 30.
Projecting into the “aftermath”, even though the shadow of the epidemic already hangs over the start of the school year and the months to come: at Bercy as at the Elysee Palace, we are trying to evoke long time again. A challenge, as this crisis has often condemned the executive to day-to-day management of the country’s economic problems.
During his televised address on July 12, Emmanuel Macron called for “A summer of recovery”, evoking a second investment plan supposed to make it possible to “Building the France of 2030”. In doing so, he repeated almost word for word the vocabulary used a year ago, at the end of August 2020, to launch with great fanfare the 100 billion euro stimulus plan to boost the post-Covid economy. In the meantime, the second and third waves of the pandemic and the successive reconfigurations have put some of the businesses and businesses under cover and made the project largely inaudible politically.
A certain wait-and-see attitude
What will it be this time? In June, the Head of State was doing everything to put on track the major projects of his last year of his five-year term, foremost among which were economic and social reforms. Today, a certain wait-and-see policy reigns. “For the moment, things are not decided”, indicates the entourage of the Minister of the Economy, about the famous investment plan of 20 to 30 billion euros, which this time aims to strengthen several tricolor industrial sectors (semiconductors, batteries, biotechs, hydrogen … ).
Its contours will be revealed ” in September “, let Bercy know. ” This autumn “, indicates the entourage of the head of state. “If there is money to put in, it will be in 2022, so the deadline is the 2022 finance bill. [présenté fin septembre] “, we specify at Bercy. Bruno Le Maire, who gave a note on the subject to the president at the end of July, also spoke with him on several occasions by phone during the summer. But, admits a relative of the tenant of Bercy, “Given the health context, the president has other priorities for the moment, he takes things in order”.
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