Ukraine: The economic and social plan will be "scalable" and "in several stages" announces Matignon

The Prime Minister, charged by President Macron with drawing up this plan, conducted nearly five hours of meetings on Tuesday afternoon with representatives of the economic sectors concerned, then with trade unions and employers' organisations.

It is a question of providing "accompaniment" to the companies directly hit by the sanctions against Russia, of "securing the supply of raw materials" and above all of finding solutions to "deal with the sharp increases in the cost of energy “, namely gas and fuel, which strain the finances of households and businesses, detailed Matignon.

According to Mr. Castex's cabinet, the final touches to the response can only be made after the informal European summit on Thursday and Friday in Versailles, which should propose "an evolution of the (community) framework in terms of state aid".

"This will be decisive in calibrating the devices for next week," said the same source.

Faced with rising prices at the pump, Emmanuel Macron promised Monday to "improve" aid, citing possible measures around the mileage allowance and the inflation allowance. From concordant government sources, the hypothesis of a new inflation allowance, tighter than the previous one of 100 euros granted to 38 million people, holds the rope.

“We are thinking about the tool”, evaded the advisers of Mr. Castex, recalling that France had “three months of strategic fuel stocks to cover all imports” and that as such “we should not that there is a movement of panic" in the service stations.

But priority will still be given to stemming the rise in fuel prices.

The resilience plan will consist of "a response in several stages, with a package that will first deal with households and part of (aid to) businesses".

For companies, the sectors "did not ask for transverse but rather targeted devices", calling for "various responses", observed the Matignon advisers, citing the case of aeronautics, whose first titanium supplier is a company Russian.

And the plan "will undoubtedly have to be scalable", especially since "we do not yet know all the counter-sanctions" that Russia could decide, argued the Prime Minister's services.

Received with the social partners, the boss of the CFDT Laurent Berger, welcoming the "great unity" around the table, insisted on the need for tailor-made aid, because "there is no question of watering the sand ". And we must "use this period - even if it will take time - to be less energy dependent", he further pleaded with AFP.

Faced with the rise in fuel prices, the president of the CFE-CGC François Hommeril for his part "recalled that it was perhaps not useless to examine the principle of a floating tax", even if he noted that "the government was not too warm".