“All companies that can must increase their wages,” says Bruno Le Maire

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“Not everything can be based on the action of the State, everyone has their part to play, companies too”, warned the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, Friday July 8 on franceinfo. For Bruno Le Maire, “Companies, which have a major social role, must also participate in easing tensions” and social conflicts. For instance, “all companies that can must raise their salaries”.

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The boss of Bercy “remain in this state of mind which is to collectively ask all those who can, business leaders, bosses, the State, local communities to stick together to fight against inflation”. He “believes more in this collective commitment than in taxes, obligations, constraints”.

The state will hold companies accountable

Bruno Le Maire warns, however: “We will do the accounts at the end of the year to see if, in fact, the companies which have taken advantage of the current situation have responded well to the call which is not the call of the Minister of the Economy and of Finance” but “the appeal of the French, who ask that everyone make an effort and that this effort be equitably distributed”.

He pointed in particular “insurers”to which he has “demand” like to others “to make an effort”. “For the moment, they have not answered me”, he said. On the other hand, the shipowner CMA-CGM, to which it has “requested an effort on containers, especially those going to overseas departments”has “make that effort”.

The National Rally (RN), but also the French Communist Party (PCF) propose to tax the profits of companies that take advantage of inflation. This is also the case of La France insoumise (LFI). Its leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, also calls for a “march against the high cost of living” in September, an initiative mocked by the Minister of Economy and Finance.

I’m not sure that a march against the high cost of living brings many answers to our compatriots about their food, their fuel, their rent.

Bruno the Mayor

at franceinfo

“I think what we are doing is a little bit more effective than the peremptory marches and declarations of Mr. Mélenchon”judged Bruno Le Maire, the day after the presentation in the Council of Ministers of the bill on purchasing power.


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