2023-04-23 17:28:19
At the Grand Jury RTL-LCI-Le Figaro this Sunday, the president of Medef wanted to issue a “warning cry” on this subject which weighs on the purchasing power of the French.
«This should be the great national cause“. Sunday guest of the Grand Jury RTL-LCI-Le Figarothe number 1 of the Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, wanted to push a “warning cryon the lack of housing construction in France, saying the country will “ahead of a disaster” on this topic. For the president of the employers’ union, the gap between construction and housing demand has reached worrying levels. The number of new homes built will certainly be “below 300,000 in 2024“, far from the 500,000 needed per year. According to his analysis, this situationshould be the great cause of the quinquenniumbecause this tension between demand and supply creates price levels thatreduce purchasing power” the French.
Without denying food inflation, he recalls that housing, for those who are not homeowners, was the center of expenditure “who matters the mostin a budget. To get out of this situation, the president of Medef calls on the players to do “a choice of society». «We want to house the French, we want to preserve diversity, we don’t want to make city centers denser.“For him, these contradictory injunctions are harmful and consultation”closer to the fieldwith local elected officials would make it possible todo things smarter without spending more money».
The president of the Medef affirms that, in particular in the food sector, “supply and demand will mean that, by the end of the year, inflation will slow down», following with a few months of lag the fall in the cost of raw materials. “We are rediscovering the world of inflation (…), companies adapt by talking downstream with their customers, he explained, it takes time in one direction or the other.Despite this optimistic scenario, he worries about the fate of “France that gets up early” – taking up the famous expression of Nicolas Sarkozy – “who earns a living but has the impression of having difficulty making ends meet».
Skeptical about the100 daysby Macron
In this context, he considers legitimate the requests for raises from employees but he underlines that companies, especially the largest ones, have “does the joblast year on this point.
Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux who met the President of the Republic last week is skeptical about the sequence of “100 days” opened by the Elysée to relaunch the five-year term after the pension reform. The representative of Medef insists that, on the dialogue between employers and unions, “if we negotiate, it will take time“. On the themes of these negotiations,when the unions are ready“, he quotes “senior employment» et «professional transitionswithout giving further details. Finally, the one who will end his mandate at the head of the Medef in July evokes his own future, affirming that he has no political ambitions and wishes to remain in the business world, perhaps keeping “one foot in the general interest“. As for his succession, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux repeated that he had no favorite among the candidates in the running.
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