Paris (AFP)
Making "work and produce more" as Emmanuel Macron wants is not only "scandalous" from a social point of view but also "completely counterproductive from an economic point of view", denounced EELV MEP Yannick Jadot on Tuesday.
The head of state urged Sunday evening in his television address to "work and produce more so as not to depend on others", while ruling out any tax increase in a country which is among those where "the taxation is the most heavy ".
"It's not just scandalous in terms of making employees pay for the crisis we are going through, but also totally counterproductive from an economic point of view," Yannick Jadot lashed out at France 2.
"All economists say that we have a supply and demand shock. Imagining reducing the hourly wages of employees is not only unfair, but also counterproductive," he insisted.
The Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire assured Monday that the injunction of the President of the Republic to "work and produce more" meant that we must "work all" and not ask employees to give up days off.
Working more "is an option if more French people go to work," commented Jadot, former head of the Greens list in the 2019 European elections. "Both by maintaining existing jobs and by creating jobs. For example in housing, thermal renovation, peasant agriculture, transport, we can create hundreds of thousands of jobs. "
As for "producing more", "if it is to produce more renewable energy, banco! Germany will devote eight billion euros, but France only 100 million", he regretted.
Yannick Jadot also "wanted Emmanuel Macron to announce a Marshall plan for young people in precariousness, who are mobilizing for the climate and solidarity and against racism".
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