“There is no reason for prices to ignite from March. There will be no red march. “Asked on BFMTV this Monday morning, Bruno Le Maire urged not to” play with the fears of the French “. “It is good to come back to reality and keep your cool,” hammered the Minister of Economy and Finance as the annual negotiations between large retailers and manufacturers, concluded no later than March 1, will be all the more strained this year with inflation now exceeding 13% in food.
End of inflation expected by summer
“We are going through a difficult period” with the “most serious inflationary crisis” since the oil shock of 1973, however concedes the tenant of Bercy, while guaranteeing that the rise in prices should ebb in our country “by summer next “. “Barring a major international event”, France should, according to Le Maire, “return to a powerful growth cycle, in particular around the decarbonisation of the economy and the climate transition”.
Asked about the superprofits, Bruno Le Maire affirms that the State “recovers” them and that they make it possible to “finance a large part” of the 46 billion euros of the shield on electricity and gas “and says he refuses to tax increases. The Minister also welcomes the historic 7.3% unemployment rate and ensures that we are on course for full employment by 2023.
A variable geometry anti-inflation basket
On the subject of the anti-inflation basket originally planned for the month of March, Bruno Le Maire kicks in touch. “I don’t know if it will be an anti-inflation basket (…) the only thing that matters to me is the purchasing power of our compatriots”, he insists without specifying whether the device was maintained while setting the deadline of March 15 to achieve “get everyone around the table and (…) work around an operational solution”.
Questioned by Apolline de Malherbe on the possible opportunism of certain industrialists, the Minister of the Economy announces a new investigation in the spring while specifying that “inflation affects everyone”.