2024-01-19 11:47:35
The day following a meeting in Matignon on Friday, Patrick Martin, the president of Medef, was pleased to maintain “a good relationship” with Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. Medef was one of the economic players received by Gabriel Attal on Thursday to prepare his general policy declaration of January 30. “I would like to salute his attentiveness,” said Mr. Martin on France Inter, emphasizing the “good relationship” of the first employers’ organization with the Prime Minister, “particularly in view of his previous functions at National Education”.
They spoke of “conjecture, international competition which is becoming terribly tougher, the importance of social dialogue, of the Europe that we want to be more combative and realistic”. Mr. Martin seems confident regarding the government’s project of simplification of standards, “launched numerous times without result” in the past: “I believe that this time is the right one,” he said. He called for “impact measurements” before issuing a new standard.
He also judged, like many economists, “almost impossible” to achieve the government forecast of 1.4% growth in gross domestic product (GDP) this year, fearing that the 12 billion euros in savings that the government wants to seek in 2025 to bring France below the 3% public deficit in 2027, becoming rather “20 billion”. According to him, these savings must be sought, not from businesses because we “need private investment”, but from “the public sphere, State, local authorities”.
Mr. Martin anticipated for 2024 “a net gain in purchasing power on average for private sector employees”. He remained cautious regarding the “birth leave” announced by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday: we need to know “who will pay and how to ensure that it does not disrupt the functioning, in particular of SMEs”.
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