PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday announced
a plan worth 30 billion euros ($35 billion) to re-industrialize France, saying
the country should reclaim its crown as a global leader in innovation.
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Speaking at the Elysee Palace six months before a
presidential election and one month ahead of a UN climate summit, Macron said
France had taken key decisions "15 to 20 years later than some of our
European neighbors" and now needed "to become again a nation of
innovation and research".
The spending was to address "a kind of growth
deficit" for France brought on by insufficient investment in the past, he
told an audience of company leaders and university students.
France, Macron said, needed to return to "a virtuous
cycle" which consisted of "innovating, producing and exporting, and
in that way finance our social model".
Over the next decade, France will aim to become a global
leader in green hydrogen and put two million electric or hybrid cars on the
roads, he said.
Macron said France would also invest one billion euros by
2030 in "disruptive innovation" to produce atomic power, notably by
designing small-size nuclear reactors.
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