France: Emmanuel Macron launches the battle of reindustrialization

2023-05-11T05:56:15.221Z

Highlights: Emmanuel Macron launches the battle of reindustrialization with a sequence in three stages. A post-retirement counter-offensive strategy, which the head of state explains in a long interview with the weekly Challenges. Macron wants to show that he does not intend to be paralyzed during the four years he has left at the Élysée. But he also calls on the opposition of the government parties PS, EELV, LR, to "be part of a constructive approach". Because Emmanuel Macron knows that determination is not everything.

Emmanuel Macron launches the battle of reindustrialization with a sequence in three stages, at the Élysée this Thursday, May 11 to present his strategy, on the ground in the Aluminium plant of Dunkirk...

France: Emmanuel Macron launches the battle of reindustrialization

President Emmanuel Macron here during his visit to Ganges in southern France on April 20, 2023. AFP - DANIEL COLE

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Emmanuel Macron launches the battle of reindustrialization with a three-stage sequence, at the Élysée Palace this Thursday, May 11 to present his strategy, on the ground in the Aluminium plant of Dunkirk Friday, and at the Choose France summit in Versailles next Monday. A post-retirement counter-offensive strategy, which the head of state explains in a long interview with the weekly Challenges.

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For Emmanuel Macron, the page of the pension reform is well and truly turned. And even if it has provoked protest, the head of state shows that he wants to move forward by declaring: "I believe that we must continue to invest and reform, quickly and strongly." Its objective is now to lead the battle of reindustrialization, Emmanuel Macron affirms: "Reindustrialization is creating purchasing power, financing our social model".

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At the dawn of his seventh year in power, Emmanuel Macron wants to show that he does not intend to be paralyzed during the four years he has left at the Élysée, even after the pension crisis in which his opponents have seen the signs of a five-year term prevented.

Give meaning and breath to its action

By praising his record, by giving himself the ambition to build "an independent and fair France and Europe", by proclaiming his desire to "fight against social determinism", by displaying a foolproof voluntarism, he tries to give meaning and breath to his action, and to reassure his majority to whom he pays tribute by describing it as "coherent, united, courageous."

But he also calls on the opposition of the government parties PS, EELV, LR, to "be part of a constructive approach". Because Emmanuel Macron knows that determination is not everything and that he will need them.

France: Emmanuel Macron launches the battle of reindustrialization

France: Emmanuel Macron launches the battle of reindustrialization

Give meaning and breath to its action

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