Without announcing any concrete measures, the government spokesman, Olivier Véran, promised on Wednesday to “break daily prices” to fight against rising prices. “We want everyone to do their part,” Olivier Véran said on BFMTV and RMC, recalling that Emmanuel Macron had called on supermarket groups on Saturday to contain their margins to fight rising food prices.
Trade negotiations end Wednesday between the supermarkets and their agribusiness suppliers. Stormy discussions predict further price increases as inflation rebounded to 6.2% a year in February, including 14.5% for food products alone. “The government is acting. We are making sure that the prices of everyday products are drastically reduced,” said Olivier Véran, stressing that discussions are underway in Bercy.
“We work with large retailers, with manufacturers, so that, ultimately, when a French person goes shopping, be it one brand or another, they can go buy the products they need on a day-to-day basis at low prices.”
The anti-inflationary basket is still “on the table”
On France 2, the delegate minister for Commerce, Olivia Grégoire, for her part, assured that her proposal for an anti-inflation basket has not been definitively rejected by the government: “It is on the table. It is under discussion.”
He promised action for March 15: “Yes, and three times yes. I do not have a monopoly on good ideas, (but) I put (on the table) this idea of the anti-inflation basket. we don’t accept it, free of counterproposals, but let’s fight together to make it a little cheaper at the checkout.
Faced with the rise in prices, the RN deputy, Jean-Philippe Tanguy, was very severe with the executive: “The President of the Republic has no other measure to offer than charity to food multinationals. We must stop capitulating as the government does in the face of inflation”. .
Source: BFM TV
