2023-05-15 07:59:00
They will discuss “the attractiveness of France and its industries” as the Head of State will receive more than 200 big bosses at the Palace of Versailles this followingnoon.
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EOn the sidelines of the Choose France summit, Elon Musk is expected at the Élysée on Monday morning. The boss of Tesla and SpaceX and majority shareholder of Twitter will be received by Emmanuel Macron, announced the Élysée, confirming information from France Info.
They will discuss “the attractiveness of France and its industries”, specified the presidency. The Head of State will receive in the followingnoon more than 200 big bosses of multinationals at the Palace of Versailles for the sixth edition of Choose France, with a record amount of 13 billion euros of investments already announced.
Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, who is due to have lunch with the American billionaire, declared on BFMTV-RMC that “negotiations” were “in progress”, the arrival of the second richest man in the world for this constituent summit, according to him. , “a very strong signal”.
“All the investments that are made today are the fruit of months, even years of negotiations,” insisted the Minister.
“Exciting projects in France”
Emmanuel Macron and Elon Musk had already met in December in New Orleans during the French president’s visit to the United States. They had, according to the latter, “a clear and sincere discussion” and exchanged on “future green industrial projects such as the production of electric vehicles and batteries”.
About Twitter, bought in October 2022 by Elon Musk, Emmanuel Macron recalled that the social network had to “make the effort to comply with European regulations” in terms of “transparent conditions of use”, “significant reinforcement content moderation” and “protection of freedom of expression”.
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Elon Musk said in response “impatient” regarding “exciting projects in France”, without detailing them further.
Since he bought Twitter, the American billionaire has wrung it out of his employees and many advertisers have deserted the platform, scalded by his hussarious management including in particular an upheaval in the account authentication system.
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