what Emmanuel Macron announced

2023-09-24 19:19:00

Alex Reed this Sunday on the 8:00 p.m. newspapers of TF1 and France 2, Emmanuel Macron made several announcements in favor of purchasing power. Concerning prices at the pump which have increased by 15 cents per liter since July, the Head of State announced that the government was giving up authorizing the sale at a loss that Elisabeth Borne had announced a week ago, and is asking distributors to “ sell at cost » (without margins)

“The threat of lowering the threshold for selling at a loss was made. It will not be in Wednesday’s text (in the Council of Ministers, Editor’s note). We keep it as a threat,” declared the Head of State, adding that the Prime Minister was going to “bring together all the players in the sector this week” to “ask them to do so at cost price”.

Emmanuel Macron also announced new aid to compensate for the high price of fuel, “ limited to workers » and to the most modest, and which might reach “ 100 euros per car per year ».

It is “ limited but much more relevant “, because it will be addressed to ” people who work and need to ride “, and will not go beyond half of French people who earn the least, specified the Head of State, explaining that he had asked the government to develop this system.

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Food

As for food prices which also continue to soar, Emmanuel Macron announced that “ 60 largest food manufacturers » were going to be gathered around a negotiating table in order to agree on an agreement limiting their margins. “ We have large groups who have raised the prices of some of their brands and therefore we want to put them back at the table “, he said. “OWe are going to put in place, and I will personally see to it, an agreement on the moderation of margins in the sector “, with some ” controllers » who will carry out checks, he added.

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Development of heat pumps

While he is due to present the country’s ecological planning this Monday, Emmanuel Macron indicated that gas boilers will not be banned, as the executive once considered.

« We will not ban » the installation of new gas boilers, « because we cannot leave our compatriots, particularly in the most rural areas, without a solution », Explained Emmanuel Macron. But the head of state also pleaded for “ support households to equip themselves with heat pumps, because heat pumps are intelligent, they save energy and they significantly reduce emissions “. Emmanuel also indicated that the production of heat pumps would be multiplied by three.

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While the government wants to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030, Emmanuel Macron indicated that France will exit coal by 2027, by converting its last two power plants, located in Cordemais and Saint-Avold.

Concerning Niger, President Emmanuel Macron declared that France would end its military cooperation with Niger, following the coup d’état that occurred this summer, and had decided to recall its ambassador in the African country of the West.