Emmanuel Macron wanted to return to his fundamentals. Become once again the apostle of a triumphant economy which would succeed, sooner or later, in overcoming mass unemployment and restoring to the country the lost momentum of a Pompidou-style France. Tuesday July 12, from Crolles (Isère), a commune bordering Grenoble, all the conditions had been met for the president to regain control of his favorite theme, too long hidden by the health crisis and the war in Ukraine.
Leaving the “Uber Files” affair far from him – revelations from the International Consortium of investigative journalists including The world is part – updating his personal involvement when he was Minister of the Economy to promote the establishment in France of the socially less expensive American company; removing from him the worries of a Parliament where he only has a relative majority; forgetting the trials in ultraliberalism » relentlessly brought against him by the left, the Head of State wanted to resume the tone of a preacher of optimism. “I come here to celebrate good news”he explained from the website of the semiconductor company, STMicroelectronics.
On a platform planted in the dry gardens of the company, between the Belledonne massif and that of the Chartreuse, the Head of State, as if insensitive to the scorching heat, returned to the massive investment of 5.7 billion euros made by the State and the American company Global Foundries for the construction of a “mega-factory” on the site. Announced the day before, from Versailles, as part of the “Choose France” trade show aimed at strengthening the country’s attractiveness to foreign investors, the project should enable France to strengthen its position in the sector of semiconductors used in cars. , telephones or medical equipment, creating more than a thousand jobs.
Offensive and confident
By investing in research and innovation, it will also be a question of improving technology in order to reduce the size of the chips and drastically lower their energy consumption. “What is decided today is at the heart of the challenges that are ours, that of industrial sovereignty and reindustrialisation, of the energy and digital transition”enthused the president.
In the audience, the environmentalist mayor of Grenoble, Eric Piolle, nods. Ready to put aside, for a moment, his differences with the Head of State, the elected official, whose party is a member of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) led by Jean-Luc Melenchon , even find this ad “rejoicing”.
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