Emmanuel Macron announced on Sunday that the government was giving up authorizing the loss-making sale of fuels, which Elisabeth Borne had announced a week ago, and is asking distributors to “sell at cost”.
“The threat of lowering the threshold for selling at a loss has been made. It will not be in Wednesday’s text (in the Council of Ministers, Editor’s note). We keep it as a threat,” declared Emmanuel Macron on France 2 and TF1, adding that the Prime Minister was going to “bring together all the players in the sector this week” to “ask them to do it at cost price”.
Emmanuel Macron also announced new aid to compensate for the high price of fuel, “limited to workers” and the poorest, and which could reach “100 euros per car per year”.