Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, the Minister in charge of Tourism and SMEs, was the guest of “8:30 am franceinfo”, Friday, December 17th.
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Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, the Minister in charge of Tourism and SMEs, was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Friday 17th December. Notice of strike lifted at SNCF, Christmas celebrations with the fifth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic … He answers questions from Salhia Brakhlia and Marc Fauvelle.
Notice of strike lifted at the SNCF: “Please, let’s try to ensure that the French can have a good holiday”
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, welcomed the lifting by the unions of strike notices to the SNCF. “Please, let’s try to ensure that the French can have a good holiday”, launched the minister, questioned on a possible resumption of this conflict. “Putting uncertainty a few days before leaving on vacation was not necessarily doing a service to the French who are tired by 18 months of health crisis. I hope that everyone will be able to leave in the best conditions”, first said the minister. Even if, says the minister “there are a few thousand who will not be able to travel, commercial gestures have been made and it is happy”, for this day of Friday.
Covid-19: the French living in “scarlet” countries will not be able “to come just for the holidays”
Due to Covid-19, “there are stronger constraints”, for French nationals living abroad “in countries classified as scarlet”, and who wish to return to France for the holidays, said Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne.
“This concerns for example South Africa because we detected Omicron for the first time there”, he clarified. The compulsory fortnight “prevent coming just for the holidays”, said the minister. “That’s why we continue to be by their side in all respects since they have been removed, so we have put in place a lot of help”, he said. “Being French outside France during this period was more complicated than usual”.