“I maintain our growth forecast of 4% for 2022”, said the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, this Monday on franceinfo. “We made a very good figure in 2021, we will have the final figure in a few weeks, but we will be above the 6.25% that we had envisaged”, he added, pointing out that “The French economy reacted very well after the crisis” and “the dynamic remains good”.
“The economic crisis is disappearing”, he assured, and the French “see clearly that this is no longer the subject”. According to him, “when there is strong growth, when there is an employment rate that is the highest for 50 years, when there have been a million jobs created over the last five years, the French are asking for something else”, in particular “to have the fruits of this growth”. To hear it, “They say ‘and me, what am I going to get at the end of the month? How am I going to get out of this? Are you going to support my purchasing power?'”.
“France’s best years are ahead of her. We have the possibility of achieving full employment for the first time in half a century,” says Bruno Le Maire.
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“There are requests that are new, it is perfectly legitimate and we are responding to them, he added. I consider that the most important today is to recreate wage dynamics in our country, to pull wages up”, he thus estimated. For that, “the effort must be shared” between the state and businesses. With “the activity bonus at 100 euros, the tax exemption for overtime” or “the reduction of the first bracket of income tax”, the state “has done its part of the way, now branch negotiations must open”, he said, pointing out that “that’s how a country moves forward, when everyone does their part”.