The government is studying targeted aid to reduce the impact of the Ukrainian crisis

Prime Minister Jean Castex brings together representatives of the sectors concerned and the trade unions and employers' organizations on Tuesday to develop a "resilience plan" in order to deal with the consequences of the invasion of Ukraine and international sanctions against Russia.

Faced with the new surge in energy prices, "we need help for the French who need their car to get to work", be "attentive to those for whom it is unbearable to pay for gasoline too dear," said Ms. Borne.

"The objective is that all those who want to go to work are not penalized by the very high price per barrel and at the pump," she said.

Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday that government aid for gasoline would be "improved" around a "mileage allowance and inflation allowance approach" to quickly deal with soaring fuel prices.

"We must be attentive to the sectors, the industrialists, the farmers, the fishermen" who could suffer from "supply disruptions" or a "significant increase in prices", due to the sanctions against Russia, added Ms. Borne .

She notably mentioned the partial activity, set up during the health crisis. “Companies that see their production stopped because a component is missing can mobilize long-term partial activity, it is a tool that can protect jobs over the long term,” she said.

Noting that for certain materials, such as titanium, France is very dependent on Russia, efforts will be made to reduce this dependence, but in the meantime it is necessary to "protect jobs", she argued.

Asked about RTL, the secretary general of the CFDT Laurent Berger wanted "targeted aid to businesses, and aid to purchasing power for households, particularly the most modest".

In “the sectors which are the most impacted, agriculture, the automobile, the steel industry, the metallurgy, undoubtedly many others, there it will be necessary specific aid for companies so that they can hold on”, he said. -he says.