Emmanuel Macron presented this Thursday, at the Elysée, his plan to accelerate the reindustrialization of France. After having neglected the sector for a long time, our country is making real progress (notably in the opening of factories and industrial jobs) but we still need to accelerate, according to the President of the Republic. “We can go much further,” he said.
• Competitiveness objective
Emmanuel Macron has promised a “carbon-free, biodiversity-friendly, digitized and transformed” French industry by 2030.
To achieve this, the President of the Republic said he wanted to maintain “the line of competitiveness.” “It would have a policy of consistency at the macroeconomic level: to remain competitive in capital, work and innovation and increase the amount of work”, also said the Head of State, referring to the pension reform, carried out in this logic.
Because “if France is deindustrialized compared to its neighbors it is because we work less than our neighbors in the life cycle,” he added.
• 700 million euros for training
Second strategic lever for industrial acceleration: training. Emmanuel Macron has thus confirmed the endowment of 700 million euros to improve training in the “professions of the future”. This amount was announced at the end of April by the government.
“We are going to massively accelerate training for the jobs of the future in the industry,” with the opening of 15,000 “new jobs” from the start of the 2023 school year, he said.
“These are training courses adapted to the needs, as close as possible to the field and that also allow us to ward off another form of inequality, the distance of many families from the places of study that implies housing and transportation expenses,” he said. aggregate.
It is necessary to “develop training, sometimes shorter (…) as close as possible to where we live, sometimes in sub-prefectures, small prefectures,” he insisted.
• Reduce administrative delays for new projects to 9 months.
Another point to accelerate as a priority: the delays in administrative procedures that promoters of industrial projects usually denounce. A new clash of administrative simplification, this is what Emmanuel Macron promises to companies that want to settle in the territory.
“The real deadlines for industrial projects today are 17-18 months, he estimates. We have already reduced them a lot, before they were 2-3 years. What we must do is take them to 9 months guaranteed”.
As? “It is possible by putting all the procedures in parallel, details Emmanuel Macron. […] Our procedures are performed from start to finish. We have the environmental procedure and then we have the urban procedure… All these conditions, it is the administration that must assume them”.
The project teams will be in charge of processing the different procedures in parallel to guarantee a period of 9 months to obtain the permits.
• A green industry tax credit
Emmanuel Macron announced the creation of a “green industry tax credit for technologies identified in European texts”, such as electric batteries, heat pumps, wind turbines or solar panels.
This measure should “allow 20,000 million euros of investment to be triggered in the national territory by 2030”, indicated the President of the Republic.
• State aid: priority to support batteries and electric vehicles produced in Europe
The green bonus will be marked on “vehicles produced in Europe,” Emmanuel Macron announced.
“We are going to support batteries, vehicles that are produced in Europe because their carbon footprint is good,” said the head of state. The automotive bonus will take into account the “carbon footprint” to “support” what is produced in Europe, announces the President of the Republic.
“This does not mean that we are doing protectionism but we do not want to use French taxpayers’ money to accelerate non-European industrialization,” he added, and asked “not to repeat the mistakes” made with the Chinese-dominated photovoltaic industry.
• A “European regulatory pause” on environmental constraints
“We have already approved many regulations in Europe. We are ahead, in regulatory terms, of the Americans and the Chinese or any other power in the world,” laments the President of the Republic.
“I call for a European regulatory break. Now we have to execute, we must not make new changes to the rules because we are going to lose all the players. We need stability”, said the head of state.
• “It does not intend to become consumers of the US industry”
“France has deindustrialized more than other European countries”, declared the President of the Republic. According to him, “sometimes we stop doing” deindustrialization, for an “almost ideological option.”
As a result, a loss of sovereignty, who dazzled during the covid crisis. The reindustrialisation of Europe is therefore “a question of sovereignty”, declared Emmanuel Macron. “If we don’t, we will depend on others.”
Referring to the intensification of geopolitical tensions, particularly between China and the United States, the President of the Republic distinguished two models: “We have a China that invests massively with a state-centric model” and values that “are not ours.” (…) and an American election that breaks with recent years and that is rather America First”.
Under these conditions, Emmanuel Macron stressed his desire to strengthen European industrial sovereignty. “In this battle, we are not destined to become consumers of American industry,” he said.
• 90,000 industrial jobs created since 2017
The policies implemented are paying off, says Emmanuel Macron. Since 2017, “300 factories” and “some 90,000 industrial jobs” have been created. In addition, “for the fourth consecutive year we are the most attractive country in Europe” in terms of foreign investment, recalled the head of state, referring to latest report from the firm EY.
“Given the acceleration (of reindustrialization) that I mentioned, we can and must go much further by 2030.”
Source: BFM TV
