Anticipated legislative elections, economic programs of the united lefts and the RN… The 8:30 am franceinfo of Bruno Le Maire from Friday June 14, 2024

The Minister of the Economy and Finance was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Friday June 14, 2024.

The Minister of Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire was the guest of 8.30 france info this Friday, June 14, 2024. He notably returned to the union concluded between the different left-wing parties, with a view to the early legislative elections.

The program proposed by the left-wing union of the New Popular Front is “a total madness”

The LFI, PS, environmentalist and communist leaders are holding a press conference this Friday noon at the Maison de la Chimie in Paris to celebrate their union announced the day before, around a common program of “rupture”, with a “declination for the first 100 days of the mandate”, at the end of four days of intense negotiations.

The program proposed in the morning by the left-wing union of the “New Popular Front” is “the assurance of leaving the European Union“, by his refusal to “European discipline“budgetary,” says Minister of the Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire.

For him, the proposals are “a total delirium“, “it is the assurance of downgrading, mass unemployment and exit from the European Union” because “this left alliance will refuse the austerity constraint of the stability pact“, declared the Minister of Economy and Finance.

It evokes “a guaranteed economic collapse“, with the proposal of a minimum wage of 1,600 euros net, which according to him will lead to a “mass unemployment“.

The far-right’s program “woven with lies”

The economic proposals of the National Rally do not find favor in the eyes of Bruno Le Maire either. “When I look at the extreme right, I see a program that is woven with lies, so it is not better“.

“The VAT cuts proposed on gasoline, gas, electricity and food represent 24 billion euros in additional spending. This is exactly the equivalent of what we need to save in 2024 and what I plan to save to balance our budget“, continues the Minister of the Economy. “They don’t care about public money“, he snaps.

He mentions, alluding to Emmanuel Macron’s camp, “the central bloc which must improve its proposals” And “take into account the messages of concern and anger that have been expressed“.

Sensitive activities of Atos: the State puts 700 million on the negotiating table

Will France keep Atos’ strategic activities, such as supercomputers used for nuclear deterrence? The state has offered 700 million euros to buy them, but its offer has yet to be accepted by the heavily indebted IT group. With this offer, the State has “kept his word“, argues Bruno Le Maire.

According to him, “other companies could be partners” to buy Atos’ “strategic activities”, and thus “guarantee” that they “remain under the total or partial control of the State.

This comes two days after the choice of the consortium led by Onepoint for the takeover of Atos, and aims to prevent these activities, which affect the sovereignty of France, from falling into the hands of foreign actors. According to Atos, its board of directors, under the aegis of conciliator Hélène Bourbouloux, and its management “will discuss this proposal with the State“.

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