The Head of State spoke at the Elysée Palace during the Epiphany galette ceremony on Thursday January 5, as bakers suffocate under rising energy prices. “It is clear that we will see prices go up” in the coming months, he said, indicating that the peak of inflation has not yet been reached and affirming his desire to help very small businesses (VSEs) in this crisis. “There will be an increase [des prix]but each time it is unreasonable, we will push the suppliers to renegotiate”, he announced. Follow our live.
For very small companies whose contracts increase in an “abnormal” way, the possibility of renegotiating with suppliers. Some VSEs have seen their contracts multiplied by “5” or “10”, said Emmanuel Macron, deploring “abusive and aberrant” prices. “We will ask energy suppliers to renegotiate contracts with these VSEs” whose contracts are “above the reference prices”, he added. A telephone number will be set up by department for this purpose, he said.
The Confederation of SMEs wants “all companies” can renegotiate energy contracts without penalty. This possibility must exist “for all companies whatever they are”said Thursday Jean-Eudes du Mesnil, general secretary of the CPME, on SUD Radio. A meeting in Bercy must take place in the afternoon the restaurateurs who should ask in particular for the extension of this system put in place for bakers.
Thierry Marx takes the floor to defend restaurateurs. ” The situation has become untenable for many” of establishments, warned Wednesday the chef Thierry Marx, president of the main employers’ union for the hotel and catering industry, Umih. “Aid exists, but it concerns very few of our companies or at a level far too low for it to be effective”, he explained, asking “the implementation of a new responsible energy contract at a regulated tariff”.
Not the same aid for restaurateurs, warns Bruno Le Maire. The Minister of the Economy assured Wednesday that restaurateurs should not expect the same aid as bakers because “it’s not the same situation”. “This meeting will be an opportunity for the ministers to teach about all the existing aid”, he explained.