PARIS (Reuters) – Emmanuel Macron says he wants to put in place simplified procedures to accelerate industrial establishments in France, in an interview with Challenges magazine published on Wednesday.
“We are going to put in place super-simplified procedures to speed up industrial establishments and halve the deadlines”, declared the Head of State.
Emmanuel Macron stressed that the priority of major investors was speed.
“You can offer them billions in aid, if you take two years to investigate a procedure and it’s cubic meters of paper, failure is guaranteed,” he said.
The President of the Republic calls for the simplification and acceleration of procedures, “by mobilizing all the actors who participate in these decisions”.
Emmanuel Macron, who is due to go to Dunkirk on Friday where the Taiwanese group Prologium plans to create a battery factory, notably cited industrial projects in this sector as one of the proofs of France’s ability to make such changes.
The Head of State, who is due to present his strategy on Thursday to accelerate the reindustrialization of France, also said he wanted to “reinvest more in turnkey sites, strengthen the use of industrial wasteland, in order also to reconcile industrialization and not -artificialization”.
(Written by Camille Raynaud, edited by Jean-Stéphane Brosse)
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