After the battle of pensions, the executive goes back to the fight, this time on the green industry. Tax credit, reduction of authorization periods, turnkey industrial sites... The Ministers of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, and Industry, Roland Lescure, will detail the flagship measures of the text already unveiled by President Emmanuel Macron, engaged for several days in a sequence touting the attractiveness and reindustrialization of the country.

Hoping to regain momentum after the difficult pension reform, the executive believes that its policy to reverse half a century of deindustrialization is already beginning to bear fruit. Citing the creation of 200 factories and 80,000 jobs in two years, Bruno Le Maire stressed that "this had not happened for decades in France", Monday on the sidelines of the summit "Choose France" on French attractiveness.

A zero-cost plan to relieve public finances

"We now want to accelerate by using (...) climate change as a lever for decarbonisation and reinvestment in France," he added. To promote new industrial sites, the bill intends to shorten the authorization procedures by halving them to a maximum of nine months.

Decarbonisation subsidies are also planned for existing industries, as well as €700 million for training. However, the government wants measures in favour of green industry to be done at zero cost for public finances in bad shape, which it has committed to straightening over the coming years. The questions of costing will be debated in the context of the next finance law.

The presidential camp, lacking an absolute majority in the National Assembly where the bill will arrive on July 17 according to Bercy, will also have to convince beyond its benches to adopt its text.

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