"We must return to work and a maximum of French must return to work," said the Minister of Economy on LCI, stressing that "activity is essential for the French nation". The government will "certainly not" announce a recovery plan for the French economy before September or October, he said. 

The Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire, called on Wednesday a "maximum of French to return to work" and to "collectively prepare the economic recovery" after the deconfinement planned for May 11. 

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"Activity is essential for the French nation"

"We have to go back to work and a maximum of French people have to go back to work," he said on LCI, stressing that "activity is essential for the French nation". The government will "certainly not" announce a recovery plan for the French economy before September or October, said the minister. 

Bruno Le Maire finally announced that France would strengthen its control of foreign investments in order to protect French companies in difficulty, due to the crisis caused by the Covid-19 epidemic. The threshold for triggering control of non-European investors taking shares in a large French company will be "lowered from 25% to 10%" until the end of the year, and more generally, control will be extended to the biotechnology, he announced.