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The “recovery” of made in France, very greedy in public money, is the price to pay to revive the tricolor economic machine.
By Kevin Badeau
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Tout a symbol. ACC, the joint venture of Stellantis, Total and Mercedes, was inaugurated on Tuesday in Douvrin, in Pas-de-Calais. It should come into service this summer and become the first factory to produce batteries for electric cars in France. The key: 2,000 jobs by 2030. This “gigafactory” will soon be joined by three other projects, also in Hauts-de-France, a region emblematic of French industrial decline. Between 1970 and 2020, the share of manufacturing industry in national GDP fell from 20% to 9%, according to the World Bank. Over the same period, the French economy lost 2.35 million industrial jobs (in full-time equivalent), according to INSEE. A “tumble”.
Since taking office, President Emmanuel Ma…