2023-05-16 03:33:18
This Monday, May 15, Emmanuel Macron is having dinner in Versailles, where the Choose France summit is being held, with the second richest man in the world, Elon Musk, media boss of Tesla, Space-X and owner of Twitter. Alongside them, some 200 other big bosses and investors. “We have a strategy, we have a plan, we are rolling it out”harangues the French president in front of the businessmen gathered in the setting of the Orangerie.
Then he says four words: « Skills, speed, ambition, intelligence » (“skills, speed, ambition, know-how”), before opening the meal in an atmosphere “studious and delicious”according to one of the guests seated in front of a plate of veal and spring vegetables.
At supper time, the French see, on the 8 p.m. television news of TF1, a president installed at the Elysée. This interview in the tone of electoral conquest, recorded a little earlier in the day, opens with France’s military support for Ukraine and claims to deliver two pieces of good news: the announcement of a tax cut of 2 billion euros concentrated on “middle class” by 2027, and the horizon of absorbed inflation “by fall”.
After three speeches in the economic press – Challenges, the Financial Times et L’Opinion – in five days, Emmanuel Macron speaks on TF1 to these French people “who work hard and want to raise their children well” – to merchants, employees and entrepreneurs… A “those who can’t do it anymore”, “who lowered the size of the shopping cart » et “deprive themselves of small pleasures”in his words.
On supermarket shelves, price increases reached almost 15% year on year in April, despite the “anti-inflation basket” in place for two months. Emmanuel Macron says he wants “Get everyone back around the table a bit to try to lower certain prices”with the focus on the food industry, suspected of inflating their margins, that the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, is to meet on Wednesday at Bercy.
“We must earn a better living when we work”
In regarding twenty minutes, the President of the Republic defends the « constance » of an economic policy that has not changed for six years. “Even when there are disputes, investors see that we are not changing. We don’t do a head-to-tail”pleads the head of state, who claims an action of a single block, where the pension reform would not constitute a break. ” It is a whole “he insists. “As she is unpopular, everyone has gone”accuses the one who says he is ready to get wet and judged, at the end of April in The Parisian, that his mistake had been “not being present enough to give consistency”.
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