2023-05-15 22:01:49
Guest at 8 p.m., the Head of State boasted of having attracted “a record number of foreign investments” in France, to the tune of 13 billion euros.
If the object was present on the table since the start of the interview, Emmanuel Macron did not expressly expose it until a few minutes later. Guest of 8 p.m. on TF1 on Monday evening, the President of the Republic was pleased to have attracted, this year, “a record number of foreign investments” in France, during the Choose France summit : “13 billion euros invested and more than 8,000 jobs.» “Three quarters of these investments and these jobs are outside Paris”, specified the Head of State. It was then that Emmanuel Macron grabbed a framed orange element in his hands: “I was in Dunkirk on Friday. You see ? It is for this small electric battery made by Prologium, and it is 5.2 billion euros of investments that will be made in Dunkirk and it is 3000 jobs just for this investment.
Last week, the tenant of the Élysée indeed finished a sequence on the reindustrialization of France, during a visit to a factory in the North, one of the territories which has suffered the most, in recent decades, from the difficulties economics experienced by the country. On this occasion, the Taiwanese ProLogium announced the establishment of a large battery factory in Dunkirk. And investments of up to 5.2 billion euros by 2030, making it possible to reach an annual production capacity of 48 GWh. If production is to start in 2026, the company promises 3,000 jobs on the site in question and 12,000 indirect jobs throughout the country by 2030.
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«These new solid batteries will solve them, shorten the recharge time, lighten the weight of the vehicle and reduce costs“, indicated a few days ago the CEO of ProLogium Vincent Yang. And this owes nothing to chance: car manufacturers, customers of the company, such as Stellantis, Renault and Toyota have already set up their factories in the North. Shortly after, Emmanuel Macron announced an investment of 1.5 billion euros from Chinese XTV and French Orano. Amounts that allow the president to praise on TF1 the benefits of his industrial policy: “Investors see the strength of what we have done, the consistency.»
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