Emmanuel Macron dispels doubts about the French social climate seen from abroad. During the Choose France summit organized this Monday at the Palace of Versailles, the President of the Republic met with several bosses who plan to invest massively in France in the coming years. Investment plans that could be reconsidered due to the particularly tense social context that France has been experiencing since the beginning of the year through the sequence around the pension reform. The Head of State cited in particular the example of Dunkirk, in a television interview broadcast by TF1:
“The country advances and the country continues to create”
In these exchanges with investors, Emmanuel Macron mainly made a distinction between the private and public sectors, which were not crossed in the same proportions by the strike movements. “I told them look at the figures from the private sector, all his colleagues have barely had a strike,” he explained on TF1. The reality is there, it is what we are looking at. We would like to generalize things in the country. , but I look at our private companies, there have been very few strikes, almost none, there has been a strike in part of the public sector.
The President of the Republic, however, recognized the strong mobilization that has been organized against the pension reform in the last four months but considered that this does not impede the functioning of the French economy. “There was an opposition in the street but it was done calmly and there was violence from one extreme and from people who don’t want solutions,” he lamented. But this in France is not that, it does not say everything about the country and the country advances and the country continues to create”.
Source: BFM TV
