In front of Medef, Elisabeth Borne urges companies to energy sobriety

The Prime Minister asked the bosses on Monday to “take their share” to reduce their energy consumption this winter, but without binding measure.

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Is the supply policy soluble in the ecological transition? While Emmanuel Macron’s second term seems to open up under the same auspices as the first – with a key role devolved to companies to invest, support growth and create jobs – the energy crisis linked to the repercussions of the war in Ukraine obliges the executive to a balancingist number.

In front of the attic stands of the Longchamp racecourse, which welcomed, Monday, August 29, the first day of the Medef summer universities, Elisabeth Borne thus recalled the government’s measures in favor of companies, and Firmly exhorted the latter to redouble their efforts to reduce their energy consumption. From the perspective of a break in Russian gas supplies, and, more generally, of the ecological transition, “we need a radical evolution. But (…) radical does not mean violent, suffered, or decreasing”, Exposed the Prime Minister, with a martial tone.

“If Russia completely cut its gas exports to Europe, the consequences would be massive,” she said. Affirming that “the time is no longer for the quarrels between the supporters of an ecology of small steps and those of decrease”, the government’s heading has everyone to “take their share, to its measure” in “organ [ Ant] Together the drop in energy consumption “.

For companies, this involves the implementation of sobriety plans, which is added to the fact that the government wants to set up in administrations and for individuals, in order to reduce the consumption of consumption by 10 % ‘energy within two years. “This plan is a pact that we offer: prefer the chosen savings rather than the cuts suffered,” said Elisabeth Borne. A first assessment will be drawn in early October. And the Prime Minister warns: “If we were to get to ration, companies would be the first affected.”

put pressure on the bosses

A way to put pressure on the bosses, at a time when the subject of purchasing power is invited in the ecological crisis, and where part of the left tries to register the climate transition in a New form of social struggle.

“Everyone must wonder about what they can do to consume less, at their level and given their means. Given their means, I insist. Because, obviously, the French in energy precariousness do not are not those who will still have to make efforts, “tried to shed the government’s chef.

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