The government business assistance office may finally be starting to get to know its audience. During the first weeks after its implementation in the spring, the system was criticized for its complexity that limited its resonance among the target economic actors: energy-consuming companies exposed to an increase in their energy bills. Since then, the system has been simplified with slightly broader criteria and Roland Lescure calls for the call of about 400 companies in the Figaro columns, after having mentioned it in RMC.
In a context of energy crisis, Roland Lescure thus advocates a relocation of energy production on French soil following the two emblematic bills of the autumn on this subject on the acceleration of nuclear energy on the one hand and renewable energy on the other . “This will help protect businesses and households in the long term and reduce our dependence on countries that produce fossil fuels,” he adds.
A total endowment of 13,000 million euros
The minister was also questioned about the means allocated across the Rhine to support companies, compared to which those released in France may seem derisory. “We really have to put this amount of 200,000 million euros into perspective, which, moreover, does not refer only to support for companies, he recalled. Especially since, for the moment, nothing is paid to companies in Germany. The government German is We are still negotiating with Brussels this aid scheme, which has not been validated, and if Germany obtains relaxations, we will also apply them.
The occasion of rappeler les récentes mesures développés comme le relèvement du volume de l’Arenh (Accès Régulé à l’Electricité Nucléaire Historique) qui accroît la possibilité de jouir de tarifs bon marché ainsi que les 13 milliards d’aides aux entreprises mis sur table. However, Roland Lescure insisted in this context on the end of the “whatever it takes” that had reigned during the pandemic.
Source: BFM TV
