Paris (AFP)
There is "no question of letting Lannion die slowly," said Minister for Industry Agnès Pannier-Runacher on Monday, while Nokia plans to cut 400 jobs there.
"I dispute this social plan of Nokia", also said on CNews the minister who is to go to the Lannion site Monday afternoon.
"I do not arrive with promises that will not be kept", nuanced Ms. Pannier-Runacher ", who added to have" a fierce desire to question this social plan that I cannot explain to myself ".
"I do not understand how Nokia can make a social plan today when they are positioned in telecom equipment and 5G" and on cybersecurity which are markets of the future, and that "Lannion brings together R&D forces in these two areas ", detailed the minister.
Nokia plans 1,233 job cuts in France, including more than half of the 772 jobs at the Lannion site, which, according to the unions, will lead inexorably to its closure.
"Nokia today does not have a boss, we must have an interlocutor who has a strategic purpose, not people who do not have a vision for the company, no vision for Nokia's industrial footprint in France ", accused Ms. Pannier-Runacher.
"France must be one of the essential countries in Nokia's strategy. If this is not the case, we must draw the consequences", warned the Minister for Industry who recalled that the government supported "to massive way all development programs in telecoms ".
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