France: Macron releases nearly 2 billion euros to develop green hydrogen

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Emmanuel Macron, this Tuesday, November 16 in Béziers, within the company Genvia.

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The French Head of State made the announcement on Tuesday, November 16, during a visit to the Genvia company, which is embarking on the production of low-carbon hydrogen in Béziers.

Five months before the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron came to the land of Robert Ménard to reaffirm his belief in the industrial future of the country and send a few messages to his opponents.

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With our special correspondent in Béziers,

" 

 ", we explain to the president, when showing him the parts that will be used to manufacture

carbon-free

. 

A sector on which Emmanuel Macron relies in his “ 

 ” plan, a slogan inscribed on a large green poster in the center of the factory.

A projection towards the future which allows the Head of State to send, among the workers, a very political message:

We never respond to the difficulties of time by nostalgia for a past that is no more, but by redoubling our capacities to resist and not to give in, but to think about the future in these new dynamics.

Very clear allusion to the speech of the polemicist

and the extreme right.

President Macron is in the countryside, perhaps.

However, the mayor of Béziers,

, despite being close to the far right, could not find fault with his visit:

Me, it costs me nothing to say "Thank you Mr. Head of State".

I don't agree with him, but when it's good, it's good.

And coming to a city like ours, with the image that we have politically, I find one: that it is courageous, two: that it is not sectarian, and three: that it is intelligent on its part.

You can't not talk to that France.

It must be said that Emmanuel Macron did not come empty-handed.

It releases 200 million euros to help the Genvia company.

What reap some applause at his departure.

With the # France2030 plan, we are going to invest nearly 2 billion euros to develop green hydrogen.

It is a battle for ecology, for employment, for the sovereignty of our country that we are going to wage.

- Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) November 16, 2021

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