While, faced with the outbreak of energy prices for a year, the executive favored support for households, the Head of State promised, on Wednesday, to do the same for businesses.
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“The State will be alongside companies.” Wednesday, October 26 in the evening, Emmanuel Macron wanted to show that the public authorities would support companies in the face of the outbreak of energy prices, in the same way as they have supported households for a year, taking charge of increasing the prices of gas, electricity, and even part of the increase in fuels.
Since the end of 2021, most of the public funds mobilized via the various price shields to contain the energy prices were indeed in favor of households (or 100 billion euros between the end of 2021 and The end of 2023). But faced with the risk of closing factories or businesses under price pressure, the executive finally decided to reopen assistance devices for the latter, which had been widely supported during the crisis due to the COVVI-19.
“It is necessary that those who produce the goods consumed, we help them to absorb energy prices so that they do not transmit them to you,” said the head of state, Wednesday evening, On France 2, supporting businesses an additional tool to curb inflation. “We will adapt our mechanisms to businesses to prevent it from spreading.”
In reality, the challenge is at least as much to contain inflation as to show that the State does not abandon the hexagonal companies in the face of the energy crisis, while Germany caused an earthquake In Europe in September by announcing a package of aid of 200 billion euros to protect its households and its companies.
“A risk of relocation”
The government also intends to show that it supports its industrial fabric, while low energy costs outside Europe, especially in North America, make some think. “There is a risk of relocation if the energy remains more expensive than in the United States or Asia,” warned Catherine Macgregor, the director general of Engie, in the columns of the world, mid-October. A risk that mainly concerns the largest companies. But the executive considers it necessary to help the entire productive apparatus.
The government will therefore benefit the very small businesses (VSEs) from “the same help as households” with the price shield. The latter will only have an increase of 15 % of electricity – as much as households – from 1 er January 2023. A complementary mechanism for “very small businesses which are very consuming of ‘Electricity or gas “, like bakeries, will be added” to amortize increases “and” guarantee “a reasonable price. It will also be offered to the smallest local authorities.
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