The Omicron Wave calls into question the sharp recovery scenario and the end of the “whatever”, three months of the presidential election.
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In the photo, it puts, the air determined, a cup by hand and aviator jacket. “Coffee with our restoreurs friends in the Basque Country. We are in regular contact with professionals (…), to accompany the case by case by case all the professions.” The message posted on the Instagram account of the Minister of the Economy, Bruno the Mayor On December 30, on the 30th of December, a reflection of the government doctrine, at the beginning of the year 2022, which looks a little too much at the beginning 2021: vigilance, but no bell bell from the economy.
While the presidential campaign begins, the Omicron surrender jostles, once again, the executive strategy, which for almost two years juggles between health and economic imperatives. “The two meet”, assured Olivier Véran in the Journal du Sunday, January 2nd. It is precisely to “avoid the destabilization of social and economic life” that the government has decided to relieve isolation constraints, for positive vaccinated persons or contact cases, assured the Minister of Health.
During his television wishes of December 31, Emmanuel Macron had held to enumerate what he considers to be the economic and social advances of his five-year: the “Unemployment Insurance Reform”, the measures of “power of “Buy”, “the increase in wages of the most modest officials” or “thermal renovation”. “Never for fifteen years, unemployment has been so low,” he insisted.
Does the French remember these positive notes, or will the Omicron wave again make the economy tangle and revive the worries of households and businesses? Monday, January 3, Bruno The mayor had to receive, with the Minister of Labor Elisabeth Borne and his counterpart of tourism, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, the representatives of the employers’ organizations and the economic sectors affected by the last restrictions: prohibition to consume standing in the Bars and cafes for three weeks, and drink and eat in transport, cinemas, theaters and sports speakers. Gatherings (except Policy Meetings) are also limited to 2,000 people indoors and 5,000 outdoors. All, on mandatory teleworking background three days a week in companies, if the position lends itself.
Emergency credits not consumed
For the moment, Bercy stick to his line of the “case per case”. No question of giving the feeling that what appears as the most virulent wave – in the absence of the most deadly – pandemic requires a return to “whatever it costs” and a massive remedy to public aid. The Solidarity Fund for Enterprises has been extinguished at the end of September, but the affected areas can still, subject to a decline in activity, benefit from aid for their fixed costs and partial unemployment.
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