“There is no industrial inevitability”, declares the president

Emmanuel Macron laid the first stone of a new Eurenco factory which manufactures shell powder. A production intended in particular for Ukraine.

“There is no industrial inevitability”, declared Emmanuel Macron during his visit to the Eurenco site in Bergerac, Thursday April 11, reports France Bleu Périgord. The President of the Republic, trowel in hand, laid the first stone of the new shell powder factory.

This visit to the Dordogne is intended as a new step in “the war economy” that he calls for. He urges defense manufacturers to produce more to continue to actively support Ukraine against Russia. “The world has changed in just over two years”explained the President of the Republic in reference to the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Emmanuel Macron calls for a “sustainable” effort from arms manufacturers

According to the head of state, “the effort” to provide, is “urgent, we have to go fast, strong, massive, but it is also durable”. He believes that the world “had already started to change ten years ago with the attack on Russia” in Crimea, but “things have accelerated”. For Emmanuel Macron, the war economy is “a necessity of the moment”because we must “hold and provide weapons to Ukraine to resist”.

“My conviction is that this is a reality of geopolitics in which we will live sustainably.”

Emmanuel Macron

France Blue Périgord

According to him, “the world of tomorrow will not stop if the war ends tomorrow, because there is a massive rearmament that has taken place in Russia recently” and because “military spending and orders are increasing everywhere in Europe” and “everywhere across the world”geopolitics “exchange“.

Accompanied in Bergerac by Ministers of the Economy Bruno Le Maire and Ministers of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu, the Head of State must then meet leaders of the French arms industry on the subject of rearmament. During his greetings to the Armed Forces in January in Cherbourg, the Head of State castigated a “satisfied form of numbness” of the defense industry before the invasion of Ukraine.