After the announcement of the social plan at Michelin, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Industry recalled the government's commitment to finding solutions in France, but also at the European level.
The announcement of plan social chez Michelin was at the heart of the questions in the Assembly this Tuesday, November 5. In response to André Chassaigne, president of the Democratic and Republican Left group, the Prime Minister recalled the government's “absolute priority to preserve or rebuild the industrial fabric of France”.
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“The Michelin group is a large group anchored in the territories (…). However, I disagree with this decision, I regret this decision,” underlined Michel Barnier.
In a tense budgetary context, the head of government also reiterated his desire to support businesses in difficulty while ensuring the proper use of this aid:
“We must create or recreate industrial employment, as well as maintaining agricultural employment in our country. And that applies to the credits mobilized in the budget within the framework of France 2030 or the support given to this or that company. And I “I am concerned to know what we did in these groups with the public money we gave them.”
At the national level, Michel Barnier spoke of the desire to create an “industrial savings book” at the beginning of 2025, “to mobilize the savings of the French to commit to industry”.
A European solution to be found
The Prime Minister also recalls the need for a “European response”, with a “context in which the automobile sector finds itself particularly serious today”:
“We have to face technological transitions, including for tires, not always fair competition from large foreign countries and the demand for decarbonization. All of this affects an industrial sector, we need responses with less naivety and more spread on certain measures to be found at the European level.”
Comments which resonate with those made a little earlier by Marc Ferrucci, Minister Delegate in charge of industry and who spoke yesterday in favor of a relaxation of the regulatory framework on CO2 emissions in Europe.
“The answers we provide cannot be solely French: they must concern the entire sector, manufacturers and equipment manufacturers, and be at a European level,” explained Marc Ferrucci.
“I came back from Berlin and I spoke with my German counterpart and we discussed the need to have an emergency plan at European level for the automobile industry,” he continued.
A response which for him “must rely on support for demand, in particular the demand for electric cars, but it must also rely on less naivety towards our competitors which are China and the United States. United.”
