To help the bakers hit hard by the increase in energy prices, the government takes care of 40 % of the increase in the electricity bill.
MO12345LEMONDE with AFP
Bakers are concerned about the rise in electricity prices on their invoices. The representatives of the sector meet in the morning the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Lemaire. Alongside Olivia Grégoire, the Minister Delegate for Small and Medium Enterprises, they will be gathered in Bercy “to discuss the consequences of the energy crisis”.
Guest of Franceinfo Tuesday morning, Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, announced that bakers, hit hard by the increase in energy prices, could “request the transfer of payment from their taxes and social security contributions “To relieve their cash. The government’s chef also wanted them to be able to “spread” the energy bills of the first months of the year “to spend this difficult moment in terms of cash.”
Already on December 8 Bruno Lemaire wanted to reassure the profession by affirming on RMC that there would be “no hecatombe […] we are there to protect the bakers and we will do everything necessary to help them to spend the winter months “.
“Global, we take care with these various aids of the order of 40 % of the electricity bill,” assured M me terminal, which also regretted that the Most of the aid in place is “not sufficiently known” of companies. The Prime Minister also set the objective of remedying it by recalling that Bruno Le Maire also receives the Chambers of Commerce and Industry, the Chambers of Trades, “we must all make these aids and the companies seize it “. Beyond that, she assured that the prefectures would be mobilized to study the difficulties that remain “on a case by case”.
The president, Emmanuel Macron, will receive bakers on Thursday, on the occasion of the traditional ceremony of the galette des rois at the Elysée.