The Prime Minister was traveling to Corbeil-Essonnes on Saturday to visit a company that received financial support during the coronavirus crisis.

Jean Castex estimated that the recovery plan of one hundred billion euros should be adapted to "changing economic realities".

In Corbeil-Essonnes, where he visited on Saturday two companies that had received financial aid in the midst of the pandemic, Prime Minister Jean Castex called for "accelerating the deployment of the recovery plan" to ensure "vigorous" growth during the recovery . Jean Castex in particular chose to return to the site of X-Fab, a company he had visited a year ago "to the day" during his first official release as Prime Minister. "It is to illustrate (...) one of our first wishes: to ensure the follow-up of the execution of what we do", he explained.

"In supporting the recovery, we must be as efficient as we were in supporting the crisis," he said, alongside Amélie de Montchalin, Minister of Transformation.

A 100 billion euro plan

Last September, the government launched a recovery plan of one hundred billion euros.

The X-Fab factory, which presents itself as one of the world leaders in semiconductors, has benefited from five million.

On Saturday, Jean Castex called for "accelerating the deployment of the recovery plan", by adapting it to "changing economic realities".

For a year, "the situation has completely changed, we are no longer in a social crisis but an industrial one," said Jocelyne Wasselin, general manager of X-Fab. "We do not have enough capacity today to do this. faced with a demand driven (in particular) by the electrification of cars which is going faster than expected ", she explained, noting in particular the difficulty of" hiring technical trades ".

"If the evolution of professions is not accompanied by a strong training effort, we will not reach the target", noted Jean Castex, assuring that one of the priorities of the government is to "ensure that economic growth is as vigorous as possible ". Objective: "economic sovereignty", in particular by putting "the package to encourage relocation". Today, "we must avoid losing" companies in sectors "very affected by the crisis", such as industry, and "very represented" in Essonne, according to Jean Castex.