Guest of Europe 1, Wednesday evening, Amélie de Montchalin, spoke on the announcement of the industrial Bridgestone, which wants to cut more than 800 jobs.
The Minister of Transformation and Civil Service believes that "Bridgestone's first obligation is to tell us that it wants to fight to save jobs".
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What can the government do in the face of Japanese manufacturer Bridgestone, which announced Wednesday the closure by 2021 of its Béthune plant, in Pas-de-Calais?
While 863 people could lose their jobs, the Minister of Transformation and the Civil Service, Amélie de Montchalin, spoke Wednesday evening on a highly political issue.
"We cannot be resigned," she says on Europe 1.
"We cannot be resigned"
If she concedes that "the period is hard" in terms of preserving the French industrial apparatus, Amélie de Montchalin believes that "we cannot tolerate a company telling us that it is closing before even having sought solutions. ".
In this situation, she says, "we cannot be resigned".