Emmanuel Macron evokes possible new measures, but doubts their “substantial impact”

While the distribution of “anti-inflation” checks to 38 million French people is underway, will the government take other measures to compensate for the record rise in prices at the pump? “The question will arise for the government as to whether more needs to be done”said Emmanuel Macron, Tuesday January 25, during a trip to Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat (Haute-Vienne), Tuesday January 25.

But the Head of State also hinted that, in his view, we should not expect too much from these possible new measures: “There are very few measures that have a substantial impact on something that does not depend on us and which are world prices. And if you want to do it in a timely manner, the instruments are quite small.” In the longer term, Emmanuel Maron judged that the key was to depend less on fossil fuels and imports.

Bercy confirms for his part to AFP that a solution will emerge “maybe in the week”. The Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire is to be received by Jean Castex at Matignon on Tuesday at the end of the day, for an interview which could make it possible to clarify the details. The day before, he had ruled out a reduction in fuel taxes but said he was open to “consider specific measures for those who have no choice but to go to work with their car”. According to our information, the only track studied by Bercy is an increase in the scale of mileage costs that can be deducted from its taxes. A measure which would therefore only affect the French who pay income tax.