It is a particularly awaited speech that will deliver this Monday Elisabeth Borne.

The Meeting of Entrepreneurs of France (REF) of the Medef opens with a speech by the Prime Minister who should call on companies to energy sobriety.

If Élisabeth Borne declared in an interview with

Le Parisien

published on Sunday that we are not "going to control the French at home" concerning the energy savings requested, she added that "concerning companies there will be common sense constraints" .

Two decrees are also being examined by the Council of State on the extinction of illuminated advertisements at night and the closing of doors for air-conditioned businesses.

A call for “general mobilization”

In front of employers, the Prime Minister intends to call on companies and individuals to “general mobilization” in terms of energy sobriety.

A first assessment of the actions taken by companies to reduce energy consumption could be made at the end of September or in October, according to Matignon.

More restrictive measures could also be triggered if the sobriety target of 10% energy savings is not achieved and Russia completely cuts gas supplies, according to the same source.

“Companies obviously have a role to play”, assures the president of Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux in an interview with

Le Figaro

published on Monday.

“The sobriety plan on which we are discussing mainly concerns two subjects: the temperature in the offices (…) and daily mobility, by pushing alternative transport solutions to the individual car”, he explains.

But, “more generally, we will also have to rethink our production model to make it more sober”.

Bruno Le Maire present on Tuesday

The Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire for his part declared on Saturday that the increase in electricity and gas in 2023 would be “contained”.

Accustomed to the event, his speech before the Medef is scheduled for Tuesday.

“Is inflation going to bury the objective of full employment?

“, will also be the subject of a debate in the presence of the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt and the general secretary of the Force Ouvrière union Frédéric Souillot.

Before these interventions, the Meeting of Entrepreneurs of France begins this Monday at noon with a videoconference and live intervention by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The REF, which recorded more than 8,000 entries last year in Paris, intends to break attendance records this year over its two days of debates at the Parisian Longchamp racecourse, provides Patrick Martin, deputy president of Medef.

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