Paris (AFP)
Taxation "blue white red", Ministry of Reindustrialisation, relocation of the production of drugs: the boss of senators LR Bruno Retailleau unrolls his proposals in terms of economic and health sovereignty in the JDD, criticizing the "tartuffes" which "sold off" this sovereignty.
"I denounce the tartuffes which praise French sovereignty while they have sold it off. Who can believe that those who sold Alstom to the Americans, the Chantiers de l'Atlantique to the Italians, who voted for Ceta (free treaty) exchange between the EU and Canada) in the Assembly will embody economic patriotism and relocation to France? ", points out Mr. Retailleau, targeting Emmanuel Macron and the majority, before a presidential address on Sunday evening.
According to him, the post-crisis coronavirus "rebound plan" must include stimulus measures and a competitive shock, but also instruments to better protect us ".
Thus, "it is necessary to increase working time, reduce production taxes, remove (...) employers' charges beyond 1.6 times the minimum wage". He also proposed "taxation + blue white red +: a company that relocates would benefit for five years from 50% of its contribution reduction and 100% if it is a strategic sector".
"We also need a full-time Minister for Economic Reindustrialization, separate from the Minister of Finance or Public Accounts", pleads the elected representative of Vendée, who also wishes to create a "tax credit on industrial investment and digital transformation. "
He also claims to "strengthen the control of foreign investments" and to launch "a sovereign fund dedicated to the protection of our strategic businesses, which would be supplemented by the savings of the French".
Finally, it proposes "a relocation of the production of medicines on a European scale". "As soon as a product appears on a list of medicines of health and strategic interest and it could be manufactured in Europe, then equivalent products manufactured outside the EU would no longer be reimbursed by Social Security", details Mr. Retailleau, for whom "this European preference would also prevail in hospital tenders".
The LR party presented in early June a global recovery plan of 250 billion euros, incorporating some of these ideas.
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