Macron calls for "constancy and stability"

"I sometimes hear all the debates we're having at the moment. I don't do politics. I don't know if it's right or left. I know it works," he insisted while visiting a site of the Framatome group, a giant in the nuclear industry, in Maubeuge (Nord).

"A policy that helps companies to invest, that rewards work and that helps to reinvest and innovate, is a policy that allows us to create jobs and industrialize. There is no secret," he stressed.

"Consistency and stability are what allow us to hold on," he insisted, echoing the words of Bernard Arnault, CEO of the world's number one luxury company LVMH, who on Tuesday denounced the planned increase in taxes on French companies.

The head of LVMH considered that this "tax on made in France (...) encourages relocation" and praised in counterpoint the policy of President Donald Trump in the United States.

"There is a future for French industry if we are consistent in our national policy, if we keep what works, if we continue to want to attract talent and investment from around the world and if we stick to the strategy we have set for ourselves," continued the head of state.

Emmanuel Macron praised the successes of the French nuclear industry, which was "threatened ten years ago" and is once again booming in the face of soaring energy costs and the need to combat climate change.

"When we talk about industry and decarbonization, there is a path for France," he insisted.

Emmanuel Macron then announced a third state support plan of some 290 million euros for the development of the deprived territory of Sambre-Avesnois-Thiérache, on the border with Belgium.

This plan, which is in addition to two others for a total of 500 million euros already concluded in 2018 and 2021, will be signed within three months, he assured in the small town of Aulnoye-Aymeries.

The first two plans reduced unemployment from 16,5% in 2017 to 12% in 2024 and boosted business creation with some 2.500 per year compared to 1.500 in 2018, according to the Elysée.