The head of state also declared, Sunday evening, that the government was giving up authorizing the loss-making sale of fuels, which Elisabeth Borne had announced a week ago.
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Statements on the issue of fuel prices. Emmanuel Macron, interviewed on “8 p.m.” on TF1 and France 2, Sunday September 24, announced that the Prime Minister would “bring together all the players in the sector this week” For “ask them to do it at cost”.
The head of state also declared, Sunday evening, that the government was giving up authorizing the loss-making sale of fuels, which Elisabeth Borne had announced a week ago. “The threat of lowering the threshold for selling at a loss has been made. It will not be in Wednesday’s text (in the Council of Ministers). We keep her as a threat”explained Emmanuel Macron.
New help
The French president also announced new aid to compensate for the high price of fuel, “limited to workers” and to the most modest, and which could reach “100 euros per car per year”.
It is “limited but much more relevant”because it will be addressed to “people who work and need to ride”. It will not go beyond half of French people who earn the least, said the head of state.